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: /ˈwoʊk/; born May 27 1915) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose novels include The Caine Mutiny The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. His brother Victor Wouk (1919–2005) was an electrical engineer a pioneer in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles.