American bestseller writer who has dealt in his work with moral dilemmas and the Jewish experience. Wouk's epic war novels have been tremendously popular. Several of them have been filmed, including The Caine Mutiny (1951). Wouk's two-volume historical novel set in World War II, The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978), was also very successful as a television mini-series. This large novel could be called an American War and Peace, which set individual values, actions, and fates against a panoramic, all-embracing picture of the world.