American · 1915–2019
Herman Wouk won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with "The Caine Mutiny," a World War Two novel about command, duty, and mental breakdown aboard a minesweeper. The American author wrote bestselling fiction for seven decades, including the massive World War Two novels "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance." Wouk brought popular fiction and serious themes together for mass audiences.