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Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Herman Wouk is turning 100 next week. To celebrate, he is writing a book.
His book “Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author” will come out from Simon & Schuster this December. The memoir will cover Wouk’s years in the Navy during World War II, the inspiration for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Caine Mutiny.” The new book is already available for presale on Amazon.
The Associated Press has more: “In a statement issued through Simon & Schuster, Wouk calls his new work a “light-hearted memoir” and thanks readers who have stayed with him “for the long pull.””
Obviously my agent, Amy Rennert, cannot tell me a lot about what she is doing—not when she's in the run-up to a big sale, at least, or in the heat of auctions. But today while Amy and I were talking about another confidential project (which is A okay, because it happens to be mine), she forwarded a link to something she called special.
I waited. My email pinged. I opened
the link.
Whaaaatttt? I said.
Because, as it turns out, ninety-six-year-old Herman Wouk, who won the Pulitzer Prize for
The Caine Mutiny, has a new novel due out from Jonathan Karp at Simon & Schuster, a novel with Moses at its heart. Mr. Karp and Mr. Wouk are, says Amy, no accidental pairing; in fact, Mr. Karp wrote his master's thesis on Wouk when in graduate school at New York University.
But neither are Amy and Mr. Wouk an accidental pairing. I asked Amy for some behind-the-scenes insights. This is what she said:
The new novel is outstanding. HW has long wanted to write a novel about Moses and in The Lawgiver he approaches the subject with great warmth, wisdom and imagination. It's a tour de force. Some of his earlier novels have long been favorites of mine—including City Boy, The Caine Mutiny (my father introduced me to it and I still have his original hardcover copy from 1951, the year it was published!) and Marjorie Morningstar—and getting to know Herman Wouk and work with him closely has been a great privilege and pleasure.
Impressed? I am.
96-year-old novelist Herman Wouk has sold his latest novel to Simon & Schuster. The Lawgiver follows the production of a movie about Moses through “letters, memos, emails, journals, news articles, recorded talk, tweets, Skype transcripts, and text messages” sent between characters.
Publication is set for the fall. Wouk is the author of The Caine Mutiny, Marjorie Morningstar and The Winds of War. Amy Rennert of the Amy Rennert Agency negotiated the deal with Simon & Schuster imprint publisher Jonathan Karp–who once wrote his master’s thesis on Wouk’s novels.
Karp praised the book in the release: “Within just a few pages I was captivated, once again in the thrall of Wouk’s sharply conceived characters, amusing narration, irresistible command of story, and the wisdom of a lifetime. I found myself marveling at the verve and wit of this great American storyteller, now 96. The insights into Moses have remarkable vitality and depth. His heroine, Margo (‘Mashie’) is a twenty-first century incarnation of one of my favorite literary characters of all time, Marjorie Morningstar.” (Photo via)
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Novelist Stephen King published “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive” in The Atlantic this month, a dark exploration of aging and tragedy. The new short story also features a cameo appearance by former New York Times publishing reporter Motoko Rich (she now covers the economics beat).
In the middle of the story, King fabricated a publishing story under Rich’s byline entitled “Nonagenarian Wouk to Publish New Book.” In an interview about the short story, King explained why he included novelist Herman Wouk (and the imaginary publishing story).
Check it out: “Every year my son Owen and I have a bet on the NCAA March Madness Tournament, and last year the stakes were that the loser would have to write a story [with a title] the winner gave to him. And I lost. Except I really won, because I got this story that I really like. The title that he gave me for the story was “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive,” because he’d just a read a piece saying that the guy was still alive and he’s still writing even though he’s 95 or 96 years old.”
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Anna and Hatchette Book Group are sponsoring this audiobook giveaway!
About the Book:More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins THE LANGUAGE GOD TALKS, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what purpose faith serves, and how scientific fact fits into the picture. He relates wonderful conversations he's had with scientists such as Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Freeman Dyson, and Steven Weinberg, and brings to life such pivotal moments as the 1969 moon landing and the Challenger disaster.
About the Author:Herman Wouk's acclaimed books include The Will to Live On, This Is My God, Pulitzer Prize winner The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.
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Please let this be me in 73 years. That is all.
Sarah Allen
(my creative writing blog)
I love this, Beth. I always feel so old when people ask if Ghost is my first novel. I was 52 when I got the deal and 53 when Ghost was published. This gives me tons of hope I will be writing until I can't write no more ;). Thanks.
YES!
My first adult novel was Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar...the first adult novel my mother read. I love that he's still writing!
Gosh, I didn't even know he was still around... Hope I can read, let alone write, at that age.
How wonderful for him -- and for us! It sounds fantastic.
Wow, amazing to be publishing a new book at that age...shows that imagination never dies