Herman Wouk (1915–2019)
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Herman Wouk was born in the Bronx, New York on May 27, 1915. He received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and philosophy from Columbia University. In 1936, he became a staff writer for the radio comedian Fred Allen. He enlisted in the Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor and was posted visa mer as a radio officer in the South Pacific. His debut novel, Aurora Dawn, was published in 1947. His other novels included The City Boy, Marjorie Morningstar, Youngblood Hawke, Don't Stop the Carnival, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, The Hope, The Gift, A Hole in Texas, and The Lawgiver. He received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1952 for The Caine Mutiny. He received the first Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction in 2008. His nonfiction books included This Is My God, The Language God Talks, and Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar. He adapted the courtroom sections of The Caine Mutiny into the Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. His other Broadway shows included The Traitor and Nature's Way. He died on May 17, 2019 at the age of 103. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Herman Wouk
Vientos de Guerra T3. Pamela 4 exemplar
Sodan tuulet 1 ja 2 3 exemplar
Arthur Hawke . 2 exemplar
The Man in the Trench Coat 2 exemplar
Tormentas de guerra - Tomo 1 1 exemplar
Vientos de guerra - Tomo 1 1 exemplar
Vihre vojne 1 exemplar
Vientos de guerra (1) Natalie 1 exemplar
Que prosiga el carnaval 1 exemplar
El mundo, el demonio y la carne 1 exemplar
זה אלי : אורח החיים היהודי 1 exemplar
The minds of war 1 exemplar
Tormentas de guerra - Tomo 2 1 exemplar
Zend lš a Caine hadihajn̤ 1 exemplar
Lembranças de Guerra (The Henry Family, #2) 1 exemplar
The City Boy Illustrated Edition 1 exemplar
Questo e' il mio Dio 1 exemplar
L'ammutinamento del Caine, La signora di Mellyn, Avventure in due mondi, Tre topolini ciechi 1 exemplar
Modern Primitive: A Play by Herman Wouk 1 exemplar
City Boy (abridged) 1 exemplar
The Assassin's Gate 1 exemplar
L'ammutinamento del Caine 1 exemplar
Tormentas de Guerra 1. Warren y Janice 1 exemplar
1955 1 exemplar
Nadzieja. [Wol. 1] 1 exemplar
Nadzieja. [Wol. 2] 1 exemplar
Youngblood Hawke (signed) 1 exemplar
St Thomas Synagogue Weibel Memorial Museum 1 exemplar
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 447 exemplar
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Die Herrin vom Nil. - Wouk, Herman: City Boy. - Caillou, Alan: Die Geparde des Amhara. - Innes, Hammond: Der… (1986) 2 exemplar
Reader's Digest Book Club Anthology, Volume 2: The Caine Mutiny • Cry, the Beloved Country • The President's Lady (1956) 1 exemplar
Selecciones del Reader's Digest 1972: La sorprendente señora Pollifax, Vientos de guerra, La aurora blanca (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Wouk, Herman
- Födelsedag
- 1915-05-27
- Avled
- 2019-05-17
- Begravningsplats
- Beth David Cemetery Elmont, Nassau County, New York, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Bronx, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Palm Springs, California, USA
- Dödsorsak
- Wouk died in his sleep in his home at the age of 103.
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Washington, DC, USA
Palm Springs, California, USA - Utbildning
- Columbia University (AB Hons|1934)
Townsend Harris High School - Yrken
- writer
radio dramatist - Relationer
- Brown, Betty Sarah (wife)
- Organisationer
- United States Navy (WWII)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1952)
Guardian of Zion Award (1998)
Alexander Hamilton Medal (1980)
American Academy of Achievment Golden Plate Award (1986)
United States Navy Memorial Foundation Lone Sailor Award (1987)
Jewish Book Council Lifetime Literary Achievement Award (1999) (visa alla 7)
Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction (2008) - Agent
- Brown, Betty Sarah
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Youngblood Hawke. A novel av Herman WOUK
Enough people liked this novel to make it a commercial success in its day. Wouk, being a great fan of the earlier Thomas Wolfe, and a very commercial writer himself, cobbled together this tale of a brilliant, but unknown writer, who does acheive commercial success, but driven by his demons, works himself to death. I wasn't really that interested in Youngblood by the time I finished the book.
I'll read anything Herman Wouk writes. This tale of his inspiration and writing career is truly wonderful, but I miss the awe and wonder on first readings of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar
When readers think of war novels, Tolstoy's classic, War And Peace often comes to mind. I believe Herman Wouk's, War And Remembrance, is destined to become an all time classic as well. An amazing novel on so many fronts !
Another book that I first encountered as a movie. Because of that, I was surprised by the first section of the novel about Willie Keith before he joined The Caine. And the book continues on long past the movie too!
Keith's relationship with May Wynn has a lot more depth in the book, though I came close todespising Willie for his superior attitude towards her . In fact, all the characters had more nuances to them except for Steve Maryk.
Keith's relationship with May Wynn has a lot more depth in the book, though I came close to
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- 76
- Även av
- 25
- Medlemmar
- 16,991
- Popularitet
- #1,309
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 302
- ISBN
- 515
- Språk
- 15
- Favoritmärkt
- 40
- Proberstenar
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