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Herman Wouk. Herman Wouk ( / woʊk / WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author who published fifteen novels, many being historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Other well-known works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance (historical novels about World War ...
The Caine Mutiny. The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize -winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains and other officers.
The Winds of War is Herman Wouk's second book about World War II (the first being The Caine Mutiny).Published in 1971, The Winds of War was followed up seven years later by War and Remembrance; originally conceived as one volume, Wouk decided to break it into two volumes when he realized it took nearly 1,000 pages just to get to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Wouk was 100 years old when his final book "Sailor and Fiddler," a memoir about his career as a writer and his Jewish faith, was published in December 2015. Herman Wouk, author of 'The Caine ...
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a two-act play, of the courtroom drama type, that was dramatized for the stage by Herman Wouk, who adapted it from his own 1951 novel, The Caine Mutiny . Wouk's novel covered a long stretch of time aboard United States Navy destroyer minesweeper USS Caine in the Pacific. It begins with Willis Keith's assignment ...
War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in October 1978 as the sequel to Wouk's The Winds of War (1971). The Winds of War covers the period 1939 to 1941, and War and Remembrance continues the story of the extended Henry and Jastrow families from 15 December 1941 through 6 August 1945. The novel was adapted into a television ...
A Hole In Texas is a novel by Herman Wouk. Published in 2004, the book describes the adventures of a high-energy physicist following the surprise announcement that a Chinese physicist (with whom he had a long-ago romance) had discovered the long-sought Higgs boson . Parts of the plot are based on the aborted Superconducting Super Collider project.
Marjorie Morningstar is a 1955 novel by Herman Wouk about a woman who wants to become an actress. Marjorie Morningstar has been called "the first Jewish novel that was popular and successful, not merely to a Jewish audience but to a general one". [ 2] In 1958, the book was the basis for a Hollywood movie starring Natalie Wood, also titled ...