Herman Wouk
American writer (1915-2019) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 103
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952.
Herman Wouk is read about 269 times a day, in 43 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
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Stanley Kramer Produced The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Franklin J. Schaffner Directed The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1955)
Edward Dmytryk Directed The Caine Mutiny (1954)- Delmer Daves Directed Youngblood Hawke (1964)
André de Toth Directed Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
Irving Rapper Directed Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Edward Buzzell Directed Confidentially Connie (1953)
William Perlberg Produced Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
Fritz Umgelter Directed Der Verräter (1956)
Alvin Rakoff Directed The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1958)- Milton Sperling Produced Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
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Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish readers. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
