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.” ... [mehr] https://www.apnews.com/1ee28153a1e54f52a516352171c7f41d
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