Leon Uris — American Writer born on August 03, 1924, died on June 21, 2003

Leon Marcus Uris was a United States Marine and author, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. His two bestselling books were Exodus and Trinity... (wikipedia)

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.