What Wouk ultimately seems to trust is neither command nor law alone, but conscience—fragile, pressured, often belated.

NEW YORK — Herman Wouk was a prize-winning, million-selling author never quite in fashion. He was a religious Jew among secular peers, a respecter of authority in a field of rebels. He didn’t brag ...

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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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

Wouk was famous for writing The Winds of War, Marjorie Morningstar and The Caine Mutiny, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He also helped popularize... Herman Wouk, 'The Jackie Robinson Of Jewish American ...

If novelist Herman Wouk lives much longer -- as, God willing, he will -- the Library of Congress may run out of ways to celebrate him. Thirteen years ago, the library put together a day-long symposium ...

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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 ...