Lewis, Chaim Potok and Flannery O'Connor who openly maintained traditional beliefs. From Ernest Hemingway to James Joyce, major authors of the 20th century were assumed either anti-religious or at least highly sceptical.īut Wouk was part of a smaller group that included C.S. Wouk (pronounced WOKE) was an outsider in the literary world. "The Winds of War" received some of the highest ratings in TV history and Wouk's involvement covered everything from the script to commercial sponsors. Other highlights included "Don't Stop the Carnival," which Wouk and Buffett adapted into a musical, and his two-part World War II epic, "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance," both of which Wouk himself adapted for a 1983, Emmy Award-winning TV miniseries starring Robert Mitchum. He won the Pulitzer in 1952 for "The Caine Mutiny," the classic Navy drama that made the unstable Captain Queeg, with the metal balls he rolls in his hand and his talk of stolen strawberries, a symbol of authority gone mad.Ī film adaptation, starring Humphrey Bogart, came out in 1954 and Wouk turned the courtroom scene into the play "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial." Among the last of the major writers to emerge after World War II and first to bring Jewish stories to a general audience, he had a long, unpredictable career that included gag writing for radio star Fred Allen, historical fiction and a musical co-written with Jimmy Buffett.
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