The desk is bare except for a well-thumbed dictionary, a picture of the novelist’s wife and an old-fashioned gold watch with Roman numerals and a heavy lid. For five years the watch has lain open on ...
YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE (783 pp.)—Herman Wouk—Doubleday ($7.95). The morality of the biographical novel as practiced by Somerset Maugham (Gauguin is called Strickland) and Irving Stone (Van Gogh is called ...