In 1949, his play, The Traitor, had a short run on Broadway. His first novel, Aurora Dawn, was published in 1947 and was a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection. When he was discharged, Wouk began writing again. They had three sons: Abraham Isaac, Nathaniel, and Joseph. Cape Limited, despite owning the rights to Alan Paton's phenomenally successful Cry, the Beloved Country, was saved by Wouk's World War II novel.īefore leaving the Navy, Wouk married Betty Sarah Brown on December 9, 1945. The Caine Mutiny was a best-seller for weeks and almost single-handedly rescued its financially challenged British publisher. It was, however, a staunch defense of the American ideals Wouk evokes in all of his work: valor, honor, leadership, patriotism, and chivalric heroism. The novel was not autobiographical, except for the shared experience of Navy duty. The experience aboard minesweepers was reflected in The Caine Mutiny. While aboard ship in 1943, Wouk-like the character Tom Keefer-began to write fiction. Navy and served aboard the USS Zane and the USS Southard, both minesweepers in the South Pacific. Treasury Department's radio plays promoting the sale of war bonds. government and became a "dollar-a-year-man," writing the U.S.
When war broke out, he put his writing talents into the service of the U.S. His first job was writing for radio in New York, and then scripts for Fred Allen from 1936 to 1941. He graduated from Columbia University in 1934. Wouk was born into a wealthy family on May 27, 1915, in New York City. Almost half a century after its publication, Wouk's morally idealistic novel remains popular. At a time when American ideals were questioned and literature was full of rebellious heroes, Wouk championed conservative morals such as valor, chivalry, patriotism, and loyalty. In critical terms, his work is sneered at or altogether ignored. Commercially speaking, Wouk is the most successful writer of his generation.
Wouk, himself a WWII veteran who had served aboard minesweepers in the South Pacific, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for this account of a mutiny aboard a fictional minesweeper, the USS Caine. Herman Wouk's best-selling novel The Caine Mutiny, subtitled A Novel of World War II, remains one of the greatest American novels to come out of World War II.
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