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Herman Wouk ( / woʊk / WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author and centenarian who wrote historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as ...
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Apr 16, 2024 · Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died May 17, 2019, Palm Springs, California) was an American novelist best known for his epic war novels. During World War II Wouk served in the Pacific aboard the destroyer-minesweeper Zane. One of his best-known novels, The Caine Mutiny (1951), grew out of these years.
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Herman Wouk has 194 books on Goodreads with 278457 ratings. Herman Wouk’s most popular book is The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1).
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May 17, 2019 · Herman Wouk was born on May 27, 1915, in the Bronx, to Abraham and Esther (Levine) Wouk. His father, an immigrant from Minsk, had started out sorting and marking laundry for $3 a week but rose to ...
May 17, 2019 · Fred Stein Archive/Getty Images. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk has died. Wouk was famous for his sprawling World War II novels, including The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, and ...
May 17, 2019 · Sarah died in 2011. Wouk is survived by his sons Nathaniel and Joseph, another son, Abraham, having died as a child, and by three grandchildren. Herman Wouk, author and screenwriter, born 27 May ...
May 17, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Herman Wouk, the versatile, Pulitzer Prize winning author of such million-selling novels as “The Caine Mutiny” and “The Winds of War” whose steady Jewish faith inspired his stories of religious values and secular success, died on Friday at 103. Wouk was just 10 days shy of his 104th birthday and was working on a book ...
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