Herman Wouk

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.

Works

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Barney Greenwald, a skeptical lawyer, reluctantly defends an officer of the navy who took control of the Caine from its captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg, while caught in a violent sea storm. As the court-martial proceeds, however, Greenwald increasingly questions if it was truly a mutiny or rather the courageous acts of a group of sailors who could not trust their unstable leader.

Release Date: 2023-09-03

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Vote Count: 111

War and Remembrance

War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.

Release Date: 1988-11-13

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 29

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Release Date: 1988-05-08

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 12

The Winds of War

Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.

Release Date: 1983-02-06

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 39

Youngblood Hawke

An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.

Release Date: 1964-11-04

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 11

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Release Date: 1959-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Release Date: 1958-10-10

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Marjorie Morningstar

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

Release Date: 1958-04-24

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 20

Der Verräter

Release Date: 1956-06-03

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 1

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Release Date: 1955-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

The Caine Mutiny

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Release Date: 1954-06-24

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 341

Confidentially Connie

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.

Release Date: 1953-03-12

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 3

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

Release Date: 1950-02-02

Character: Self - Panelist

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 26

Slattery's Hurricane

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.

Release Date: 1949-08-11

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 9