Biography

May 27, 1915 · New York City, New York, USA

May 17, 2019 · Palm Springs, California, USA (in his sleep)

6′ (1.83 m)

Served in the U.S. Navy as Executive Officer on the destroyer-minesweepers U.S.S. Zane and U.S.S. Southard. This later became the inspiration for his novel The Caine Mutiny (1954).

Had three sons. The eldest, Abraham Isaac Wouk, died in 1951, shortly before his fifth birthday.

Bore a startling resemblance to actor Van Heflin.

Is a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, NY Alpha chapter.

Son of Esther (Levine) and Abraham Isaac Wouk. His parents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, Belarus.

[observation, 2016] Once the human race figured out how to dig uranium from the earth and make a projectile from it, it's really the end of war. In most of my lifetime, the two powers that could do it refrained from doing doing it because it was sheer folly ending in suicidal absurdity.

I'm not out front as a figure and that suits me. I love the work and it's the greatest possible privilege to say, 'Here are books that exist because I had to write them'.