The desk is bare except for a well-thumbed dictionary, a picture of the novelist’s wife and an old-fashioned gold watch with Roman numerals and a heavy lid. For five years the watch has lain open on ...

Herman Wouk, the versatile author of "The Caine Mutiny" and the World War II epics "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance," has died at age 103. Literary agent Amy Rennert says Wouk died in his ...

YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE (783 pp.)—Herman Wouk—Doubleday ($7.95). The morality of the biographical novel as practiced by Somerset Maugham (Gauguin is called Strickland) and Irving Stone (Van Gogh is called ...

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 for his portrayal of Jewish Americans ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — As he nears his 100th birthday, Herman Wouk has a book planned with a title permitted only to a man of his age. Wouk’s “Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author” is ...

(AP) At age 96, Herman Wouk is ready for a fresh start. The author of “The Caine Mutiny,” ”The Winds of War” and other classics has a new novel and has switched publishers after decades with Little, ...

Herman Wouk (/woʊk/ WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His ...

Herman Wouk, the 88-year-old author of The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of War, talks to NPR's Bob Edwards about A Hole in Texas-- the first novel he's written in 10 years. The book tells the story of a ...

Many people might remember Wouk for a certain incident involving strawberries in The Caine Mutiny, which became a film in 1954. After having a breakdown at sea, the tyrannical Captain Queeg accuses ...