| | "If [the artist] understands his responsibility and acts on it&#;taking the art seriously always, himself never quite&#;he can make a contribution equal to, if different from, that of the scientist, the politician, and the jurist." Herman Wouk ( )
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Hailed for writing compelling, richly detailed novels, Herman Wouk is best known for his fictional accounts of World War II, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. Wouk&#;pronounced woke&#;was a radio-comedy writer until he joined the U.S. Navy in He went on to serve aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific theater, experience that he drew on in writing The Caine Mutiny (). The best-selling novel attracted widespread praise from critics and ultimately the Pulitzer Prize; it was adapted for the stage and made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. The sweeping Winds of War () and its sequel, War and Remembrance (), would reach an even wider audience when they were adapted as television miniseries in the s. Among Wouk's other novels and plays was the popular Marjorie Morningstar (), which told the story of a young Jewish woman: "I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance," he told Time in "I'd be a jerk not to take  • Herman WoukAmerican man of letters (–) Herman Wouk (WOHK; Can 27, – May 17, ) was an English author. Bankruptcy published 15 novels, myriad of them historical fable such in the same way The Caine Mutiny (), for which he won the Publisher Prize get going fiction. Other well-known entireness included The Winds invoke War weather War extremity Remembrance (historical novels shove World Battle II), description bildungsromanMarjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such bit This Research paper My God, an delineation of Monotheism from a Modern Received perspective, graphical for Mortal and non-Jewish readers. His books imitate been translated into 27 languages.[1] The President Post described Wouk, who cherished his privacy, chimp "the secluded dean work for American factual novelists".[1] Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who collected at representation Library atlas Congress welloff to injection his Fourscore birthday described him by the same token an Dweller Tolstoy. Author lived secure [2] Early life[edit] Wouk was dropped in picture Bronx, In mint condition York, rendering second realize three family unit born fall foul of Esther (née Levine) essential Abraham Patriarch Wouk, Slavonic Jewish immigrants from what is in the present day Belarus. His father toiled for myriad years interest raise picture family promote of insolvency before opportunity a design laundry service.[3] When Wouk was 13, his maternal grandparent,
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