The Washington Post, May 16th, 1995
A high-powered tribe of historians, novelists, publishers and critics turned out yesterday to honor the reclusive dean of American historical novelists with an emotional tribute to the man they hailed as the country's Tolstoy. "This is supposed to be a daylong symposium on Herman Wouk," biographer Robert Caro told a luncheon at the Library of Congress. "But the truth is that Herman Wouk is a symposium on the entire 20th century." Smiling shyly in the audience was the octogenarian author of such books as "The Caine Mutiny," "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance," who Caro said was being h...
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