following year. His third and last wife was photographer Jill Peabody, daughter of Frances Gleason and Alfred Peabody of Boston. They had two children, Rachel and Conor. They married in 1970, when she was 22 years old and he was 45. He and wife Jill worked together on his book Ireland: A Terrible Beauty, for which she provided illustrations and on Jerusalem: A Song of Songs. They divorced in 1988, and soon after Uris settled in New York City. Death Leon Uris died of kidney failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island in 2003, aged 78. His papers can be found at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas in Austin, where the University of Texas Press published a literary biography about him. The collection includes all of Uris's novels, with the exception of The Haj and Mitla Pass, as well as manuscripts for the screenplay, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. He was survived by his five children and two grandchildren. Selected titlesBattle Cry, 1953The Angry Hills, 1955Exodus, 1958Exodus Revisited, 1960 (GB title: In the Steps of Exodus)Mila 18, 1961Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, 1963Topaz, 1967The Third Temple (with Strike Zion by William Stevenson), 1967QB VII, 1970Ireland, A Terrible Beauty, 1975 (with Jill Uris)Trinity, 1976Jerusalem: A Song of Songs, 1981 (with Jill Uris)The Haj, 1984Mitla Pass, 1988Redemption, 1995A God in Ruins, 1999O'Hara's Choice, 2003 See also List of bestselling novels in the United States Notes References Further reading Ira Nadel. Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller'' (University of Texas Press; 2010) 376 pages; scholarly biography External links Inventory of Leon Uris novel and screenplay manuscripts and other documents Leon Uris Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Jill Uris at LC Authorities, with 3 records 1924 births 2003 deaths American historical novelists Novelists from New York (state) Writers from Baltimore People from Shelter Island, New York American people of Polish-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent American writers of Russian descent United States Marines Jewish American military personnel Baltimore City College alumni United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II Deaths from kidney failure Burials at Quantico National Cemetery Jewish American novelists American war novelists 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Maryland 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers American expatriates in New Zealand 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American