ABSTRACT
Herman Wouk, novelist, playwright, essayist, screen writer, was born on East 167th St., The Bronx, a borough of New York City, on 27 May 1915. His parents, Abraham Isaac and Esther Levine Wouk, were Russian Jews. Although they had emigrated from the same city, Minsk, in the early 1900s, they met and married in America. In Czarist Russia, Wouk's father had been a Socialist agitator under police surveillance.
