It was only when Herman Wouk died this past May at the age of 103 that I learned how to pronounce the surname of a man who wrote one of my favorite books. It’s “woke” not “walk” and it is at once apt and completely wrong for the author of Marjorie Morningstar. That 1955 novel, … Continue reading Laura Lippman: My 35-Year Love Affair with Marjorie Morningstar