Leon Marcus Uris was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including Exodus and Trinity.
Uris in 1989
Uris in Israel in the 1950s
Leon Uris during a 1967 visit to Israel
Exodus is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state.
First edition