Herman Wouk

We have featured posts by people who hold a wide range of views and backgrounds such as Herman Wouk, Michael Ruse, Karl Giberson, Sam Harris, and Ervin Lazslo.

Paul Raushenbush: HuffPost Religion Announces the Launch of Religion and Science: A Contemporary Discussion 2010

In Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, Captain Queeg is removed from command when he freezes during a typhoon.

Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No Adam Levin 2011

But to my mind, the two authors at the festival who best represented where the industry has been and where it could be headed were Herman Wouk and Dave Eggers. 94-year-old Wouk, who took the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for his The Caine Mutiny--the year before Ernest Hemingway won for The Old Man and the Sea--is still going strong.

Mark Coggins: L.A. Times Festival Of Books: The Stars Come Out To Celebrate Books (PHOTOS) Mark Coggins 2010

To my mind, the two authors at the festival who best represented where the industry has been and where it could be headed were Herman Wouk and Dave Eggers.

Mark Coggins: L.A. Times Festival Of Books: The Stars Come Out To Celebrate Books (PHOTOS) 2010

Herman Wouk once wrote that the past of immigrant America is like a fog: “Clutch at it and it wisps through your fingers.”

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

Moreover, these housewives resemble many of the Jewish mothers in the 1950s and 1960s fictions of Herman Wouk and Philip Roth — Marjorie Morningstar, Goodbye Columbus, and Portnoy's Complaint — books that defined the Jewish American Princess and Jewish American Mother in the popular mind.

"Betty Friedan, Feminism, and Jewish Identity", from Joyce Antler, The Journey Home... 2010

But to my mind, the two authors at the festival who best represented where the industry has been and where it could be headed were Herman Wouk and Dave Eggers. 94-year-old Wouk, who took the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for his The Caine Mutiny -- the year before Ernest Hemingway won for The Old Man and the Sea -- is still going strong.

Mark Coggins: L.A. Times Festival Of Books: The Stars Come Out To Celebrate Books (PHOTOS) 2010

As Herman Wouk wrote in War and Remembrance, Spruance's orders could be interpreted as "rock 'em, sock 'em, but don't lose your shirt."

Lead Like Spruance In The Battle Of Midway 2010

But to my mind, the two authors at the festival who best represented where the industry has been and where it could be headed were Herman Wouk and Dave Eggers. 94-year-old Wouk, who took the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for his The Caine Mutiny -- the year before Ernest Hemingway won for The Old Man and the Sea -- is still going strong.

Mark Coggins: L.A. Times Festival Of Books: The Stars Come Out To Celebrate Books (PHOTOS) 2010

When I was growing up, I was semi-addicted to the novels of Herman Wouk, particularly The Winds of Warand War and Remembrance.

War and Remembrance 2010