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 ...
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 ...
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 ...