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 ...

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It was good to see your article about Herman Wouk by Annie Wilkinson in the Great Neck News-Record and wonderful to hear about Mr. Wouk’s initiating Synagogues and Jewish prayer groups wherever he ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The strawberries are still missing; the steel balls continue rolling nervously around in Captain Queeg’s sea-weathered mitts. And Showtime’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is yet another revisiting ...

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 ...

Ted reviews three books by author Herman Wouk. Ted reviews three books by author Herman Wouk, including The Winds of War and War & Remembrance Parts 1 and 2. Inside the Cover is available to stream on ...

Today in books and publishing: 96-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk gets a book deal, deconstructing Amazon's charitable ways, and a non-heartbreaking letter from David Foster Wallace to Don ...

NEW YORK — Philip Roth, 79 and looking fit in recent photographs, has said that after looking back on his long and prolific career he decided he had written enough. The novel "Nemesis," published in ...