Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

He derived his surname from Yerushalmi meaning "man of Jerusalem". It is said that the book involved two years of research and involved thousands of interviews. Corral.

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3 1924 – June 21 2003) was an American novelist known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. His two bestselling books were Exodus (publiLeon Urisd in 1958) and Trinity (publiLeon Urisd in 1976).