Sailor and Fiddler : Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author

from hubblegal

I'm very excited about the release of this book by Herman Wouk on January 5th. Books such as "Marjorie Morningstar", "Youngblood Hawke", "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" will always have a special place in my heart. I count them among the books that cemented my love of reading in my youth...

from DavidWineberg

Chutzpah and luck It takes some nerve to sum up a 100 year life in less than a hundred pages. It reads like fastforwarding a DVD or tape: blurry images and sudden stops to inch forward in detail, followed by another blur. For a public interested in glimpses of the real man and the real story, it ...

from wwj

Great fun. I was hoping for more information on Caine Mutiny, which is the main work I know him from, but a great read. And it led to more titles.

from Schmerguls

The author turned 100 on May 27, 2015, and so I suppose this is the only book written by a person over 100 years old that I have ever read.. It is a memoir of his life, telling of growing up in New York City, attending Columbia, working as a gag writer for Fred Allen, serving in the Navy during W...

from wwj

Great fun. I was hoping for more information on Caine Mutiny, which is the main work I know him from, but a great read. And it led to more titles.