The novelist Herman Wouk died at the age of 103. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of War and Remembrance, The Caine Mutiny, and other historical novels. He is also known for plays such as Nature’s Way and The Traitor. His novel, Aurora Dawn, was a Book of the Month Club selection in 1947.
He was born in New York City to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents. He married Sarah Brown in 1945; the couple had three sons.
Quotes
"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
"Write a page a day. It will add up.
"I felt there’s a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I’d be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.