NEW YORK — Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of such novels as “The Caine Mutiny” and “The Winds of War,” died Friday at 103.

Among the last of the major writers to emerge after World War II and first to bring Jewish stories to a general audience, he had a long, unpredictable career that included gag writing for radio star Fred Allen, historical fiction and a musical co-written with Jimmy Buffett.

He won the Pulitzer in 1952 for “The Caine Mutiny,” the classic Navy drama that made the unstable Captain Queeg a symbol of authority gone mad.

A film adaptation, starring Humphrey Bogart, came out in 1954 and Wouk turned the courtroom scene into the play “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.”

Other highlights included his two-part World War II epic, “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance,” both of which Wouk adapted for a 1983 TV miniseries.