His other Broadway shows included The Traitor and Nature's Way. He adapted the courtroom sections of The Caine Mutiny into the Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. THE WINDS OF WAR BY HERMAN WOUK - Hardcover. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for THE WINDS OF WAR BY HERMAN WOUK - Hardcover at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products. His nonfiction books included This Is My God, The Language God Talks, and Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author. He received the first Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction in 2008. He received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1952 for The Caine Mutiny. 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. His debut novel, Aurora Dawn, was published in 1947. He enlisted in the Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor and was posted as a radio officer in the South Pacific. In 1936, he became a staff writer for the radio comedian Fred Allen. He received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and philosophy from Columbia University. Herman Wouk was born in the Bronx, New York on May 27, 1915. A Masterpiece of Historical Fiction-The Great Novel of America's 'Greatest Generation' Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers.
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