From Barnes & NobleHerman Wouk's longevity still surprises people. In fact, just last year, Stephen King honored the now 97-year-old novelist with an award-winning short story entitled "Herman Wouk Is Alive." The wonder, however, does not stop with his age: The man who began his career as an author in 1941 is still writing. For more than fifty of those years, he has been contemplating writing a novel about the life of Moses. The Lawgiver is that novel, but Wouk approaches it in a winningly circuitous. Instead of a Ten Commandments Moses, we have a female writer/director who is hell-bent on advancing her career by making a film about the Old Testament patriarch. (P.S. Among the people making cameo appearances in this fiction are Wouk and his wife of more than sixty years.
