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Acclaimed author Herman Wouk dead at 103...
Posted on 5/17/19 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 5/17/19 at 2:25 pm
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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 until the end, said his literary agent Amy Rennert.
Rennert said Wouk died in his sleep at his home in Palm Springs, California, where he settled after spending many years in Washington, D.C.
Among the last of the major writers to emerge after World War II and first to bring Jewish stories to a general audience, he had a long, unpredictable career that included gag writing for radio star Fred Allen, historical fiction and a musical co-written with Jimmy Buffett. He won the Pulitzer in 1952 for “The Caine Mutiny,” the classic Navy drama that made the unstable Captain Queeg, with the metal balls he rolls in his hand and his talk of stolen strawberries, a symbol of authority gone mad. A film adaptation, starring Humphrey Bogart, came out in 1954 and Wouk turned the courtroom scene into the play “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.”
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Posted on 5/17/19 at 2:30 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/17/19 at 2:32 pm to RollTide1987
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A film adaptation, starring Humphrey Bogart
His finest performance imo.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 2:54 pm to RollTide1987
One of America's greatest novelists
Anyone who wants an entertaining and largely accurate primer on WWII America could do a lot worse than simply reading Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Should be read in school/college simply because they're so sweeping in the ground they cover.
Anyone who wants an entertaining and largely accurate primer on WWII America could do a lot worse than simply reading Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Should be read in school/college simply because they're so sweeping in the ground they cover.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 1:29 pm to Pettifogger
for once the search function paid off for me!!!!!
an interesting man to say the least...and on top of all the writing, he was partners with Jimmy Buffett to produce a musical!!!
an interesting man to say the least...and on top of all the writing, he was partners with Jimmy Buffett to produce a musical!!!
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