Leon uris trinity 19765/31/2023 ![]() He served in the South Pacific with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, where he was stationed in New Zealand, and fought as a radioman in combat on Guadalcanal and Tarawa from 1942 through 1944. When he was 17 and in his senior year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, but never graduated from high school, and failed English three times. I think failure formed his character, made him bitter."Īt age six, Uris reportedly wrote an operetta inspired by the death of his dog. ![]() "I think his personality was formed by the harsh realities of being a Jew in Czarist Russia. (His brother Aron, Leon's uncle, took the name Yerushalmi.) "He was basically a failure", Uris later said of his father. He derived his last name from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem". ![]() William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. His mother was first-generation Russian American. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was a paperhanger, then a storekeeper. Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish American parents Wolf William and Anna (née Blumberg) Uris. ![]()
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