Book Review: Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author by Herman Wouk

Refuel with a Writer’s Unforgettable Career and Life in the Arts

This book—published in 2016 with a tantalizing title—gathers stories about authorship. They’re by and about Herman Wouk. If you don’t know who he is, you should. Wouk wrote Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Inside, Outside and The Caine Mutiny. He lost a child. He wrote for radio. He wrote for Broadway. He earned a large sum o…