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Leon Uris dead

NEW YORK: The author, Leon Uris, an immigrant's determined son who made it big with the million-selling `Exodus' and other greatly popular novels, has died, his ex-wife said. He was 78. Mr. Uris died on Saturday of natural causes at his home on New York's Shelter Island, sources said today. Published in 1958, the 600-page `Exodus' was a sensation as millions read Mr. Uris' detailed, heroic chronicle of European Jewry from the turn of the century to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The novel was translated into dozens of languages and was even distributed secretly in Communist countries. `Exodus' has been the Bible of the Jewish dissident movement in Russia," Mr. Uris told The Associated Press in a 1988 interview. "It's referred to as `The Book'. Energetic and unafraid, the author was as much an adventurer as a writer, travelling tirelessly and sometimes risking his life. Mr. Uris also endured some of his own battles, feuding with film directors Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock, and fighting lawsuits for both `Exodus' and the thriller `Topaz.'

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