Théodore Brauner · Public domain

Herman Wouk won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny, and followed it with The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, two sweeping historical novels about the Second World War that became defining works of American popular fiction on the subject. He also wrote This Is My God, an explanation of Modern Orthodox Judaism aimed at Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike, and kept publishing into his late nineties across a writing career that spanned more than seventy years.