In an attic room of a little house in the village of Northport on Long Island’s North Shore, in 1951, a young, unknown writer from Great Neck wrote several novels and plays. He also researched and ...

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 ...

Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of million-selling novels such as The Caine Mutiny and The Winds Of War, has died at the age of 103. Wouk was just 10 days short of his 104th birthday ...

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 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin has been plenty selective in the films he directs, but the heralded helmer of The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A. and others has found both a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seth MacFarlane is adapting Herman Wouk’s “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance” novels into a limited series for Universal ...

Sometime in the 1980s, two middle-aged Jewish gentlemen met in the small Chabad synagogue in Palm Springs, California. One was American-born and clean-shaven. The other was a slim, more obviously ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the 1970s, you couldn’t go anywhere without seeing the name Herman ...

“The Winds of War” and its sequel, “War and Remembrance,” had established the late Jewish author’s reputation as a master of historical fiction. (JTA) — “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane is ...

Author Herman Wouk, whose World War Two experiences provided the foundation of his bestseller "The Caine Mutiny" and two epic novels about the war, died on Friday at the age of 103, his literary agent ...