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Herman Wouk (1915–2019)

Author of The Winds of War

Includes the names: H Wouk, Wouk Herman, Герман Вук

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Herman Wouk was born in the Bronx, New York on May 27, 1915. He received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and philosophy from Columbia University. In 1936, he became a staff writer for the radio comedian Fred Allen. He enlisted in the Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor and was posted as a radio officer in the South Pacific. His debut novel, Aurora Dawn, was published in 1947. His other novels included The City Boy, Marjorie Morningstar, Youngblood Hawke, Don't Stop the Carnival, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, The Hope, The Gift, A Hole in Texas, and The Lawgiver. He received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1952 for The Caine Mutiny. He received the first Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction in 2008. His nonfiction books included This Is My God, The Language God Talks, and Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar. He adapted the courtroom sections of The Caine Mutiny into the Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. His other Broadway shows included The Traitor and Nature's Way. He died on May 17, 2019 at the age of 103. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Winds of War… (more)
The Winds of War 3,216 copies, 54 reviews
The Caine Mutiny 3,194 copies, 57 reviews
War and Remembrance 2,649 copies, 40 reviews
Marjorie Morningstar 1,256 copies, 28 reviews
The Hope 1,073 copies, 10 reviews
This is My God 791 copies, 7 reviews
The Glory 737 copies, 6 reviews
Don't Stop The Carnival 674 copies, 20 reviews
Inside, Outside 611 copies, 9 reviews
Youngblood Hawke 406 copies, 5 reviews
City Boy 329 copies, 16 reviews
A Hole in Texas: A Novel 308 copies, 6 reviews
The Lawgiver: A Novel 198 copies, 11 reviews
Aurora Dawn 168 copies, 5 reviews
War and Remembrance, Vol. 1 160 copies, 3 reviews
War and Remembrance, Vol. 2 157 copies, 1 review
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial 127 copies, 5 reviews
The "Lomokome" Papers 71 copies, 3 reviews
Krigets vindar. [2], Pamela 37 copies, 1 review
Slattery's hurricane 20 copies, 1 review
The Traitor 13 copies
Mundo, demonio y carne 6 copies, 1 review
Op mod vinden 3 copies
Vihre vojne 2 copies
1955 1 copy
Self-Portrait of a Hero (Introduction) 138 copies, 4 reviews
New voices in the American theatre (Contributor) 112 copies, 1 review
Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Contributor) 83 copies, 2 reviews
The Winds of War [1983 TV mini-series] (Original novel) 52 copies, 2 reviews
The Jewish Writer (Contributor) 50 copies
War and Remembrance: The Complete Epic Mini-Series (Original novel) 25 copies, 2 reviews
Various Temptations (Contributor) 7 copies
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