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Herman Wouk

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 64115

IMDb ID: nm0941883

Known for: Writing

Born: May 27, 1915

Died: May 17, 2019

Age: 103

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1948 - 2026

Years active: 79

Average TMDB rating: 7.08

Wikidata: Q49072

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Biography

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 non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish 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 Wouk's 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy.

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