Herman Wouk is still writing in his tenth decade. His most recent work is not surprisingly a memoir, which I believe was released last year. In it, he speaks about his strong Jewish faith and the discipline it gave him to be such a prolific writer of sweeping operatic fiction such as The Winds of War.
He won the Pulitzer for The Caine Mutiny, later to become a classic film with an all-star cast, and gave the world the struggle for Israel in heart-wrenching The Hope. His escape-NYC-to-the-Caribbean novel Don't Stop the Music was turned into a musical with Jimmy Buffet, and I could go on.
For engaging characters in special situations in which they must sink or swim, there are few, if any, 20th-century masters of the large operatic novel better than Wouk.
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