HERMAN WOUK - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 11/19/1955 - HFSID 293712
The 1952 Pulitzer Prize recipient signs a note on a 5¼x1½ piece of paper
Autograph Note signed: "NYC/19 XI 55/Thank you for a very cordial letter./Sincerely, Herman
Wouk" 5¼x1½ piece of paper, affixed at an 8½x11 page (2 surfaces).
Price: $180.00
Condition: Lightly creased, otherwise fine condition
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HERMAN WOUK
The 1952 Pulitzer Prize recipient signs a note on a 5¼x1½ piece of paper
Autograph Note signed: "NYC/19 XI 55/Thank you for a very cordial letter./Sincerely, Herman
Wouk" 5¼x1½ piece of paper, affixed at an 8½x11 page (2 surfaces). Herman Wouk
(1915-2019) won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Caine Mutiny. The book
became a Broadway play and the 1954 film version, starring Humphrey Bogart as Captain
Queeg, was nominated for six Academy Awards. Wouk's other works include the best-sellers
Marjorie Morningstar (1955), Youngblood Hawke (1962), The Winds of War (1971) and
War and Remembrance (1978). All of these works became films or - in the case of the latter
two - TV miniseries. Wouk's honors include the Guardian of Zion Award (1998) and the
first Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for fiction (2008). From the
collection Ralph Errington Ward (1926-2009) a fighter pilot and squadron commander in
the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. Ward became President and CEO of
Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc., transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product
conglomerate. Adhesive on verso (light show through, slightly affecting signature, still legible).
Lightly creased. Vertical fold though center. Otherwise, fine condition.
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