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 other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance historical novels about World War II and nonfiction such as This Is My God an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective written for Jewish and nonJewish audiences His books have been translated into 27 languages The Washington Post called Wouk who cherished his privacy the reclusive dean of American historical novelists Historians novelists publishers and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouks 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy
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