Herman Wouk was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1915 and graduated from Columbia University in 1934. He served as a U.S. Navy officer in the Pacific in World War II.
His books include The Caine Mutiny (1951), Marjorie Morningstar (1955), The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978). The Caine Mutiny won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He died in Palm Springs, California, in 2019, at the age of 103.