What American author born in 1915, and won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, wrote the 1965 novel, 'Don't Stop the Carnival'?
Herman Wouk
Don't Stop the Carnival (novel)
Don't Stop the Carnival is a 1965 novel by American writer Herman Wouk.
 It is a comedy about escaping middle-age crisis to the Caribbean, a heaven that quickly turns into a hell for the main character.
 The novel was turned into a short-lived musical and later, album by Jimmy Buffett in 1997.
Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk ( ; born May 27, 1915) is an American author.
 His 1951 novel "The Caine Mutiny" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
 His other works include "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance", historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as "This Is My God", a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences.
 His books have been translated into 27 languages. "
The Washington Post" called Wouk, who cherishes his privacy, “the reclusive dean of American historical novelists.”
 Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday likened him to "an American Tolstoy."
Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
 It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there.
 The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983.
 One of the protagonists of "Tree of Smoke" is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's 1983 debut novel "Angels". Lawrence Dorr
Lawrence Dorr (1925– December 7, 2014) was the nom de plume of Janos Shoemyen, a Hungarian-American author born in Budapest, Hungary.
 He escaped from his homeland during the Soviet occupation and endured an itinerant life in immediate post-war Europe.
 He tried first to emigrate to the UK and then the USA where he finally settled in Gainesville, Florida.
 He authored a number of short story collections including "A Slow Soft River, A Bearer of Divine Revelation," and "A Slight Momentary Affliction," which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
 Three of his short stories appeared in the respected literary journal, "The Virginia Quarterly Review". The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the "Pictorial Review" magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London.
 It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.
 Though the committee initially agreed to award the prize to Sinclair Lewis, the judges rejected his "Main Street" on political grounds and "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'", the irony being that the committee had awarded "The Age of Innocence" the prize on grounds that negated Wharton's own blatant and subtle ironies, which constitute and make the book so worthy of attention.
 The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age.
 Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author with publishers clamoring for her work. David S. Rohde
David Stephenson Rohde (born August 7, 1967) is an American author and investigative journalist who currently serves as the online news director for "The New Yorker".
 While a reporter for "The Christian Science Monitor", he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre.
 From 2002 until 2005, he was co-chief of "The New York Times"' South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi, India.
 He later contributed to the newspaper's team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and was a finalist in his own right in the category in 2010.
 He is also a global affairs analyst for CNN. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.
 He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
 He founded the literary journal "The Southern Review" with Cleanth Brooks in 1935.
 He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel "All the King's Men" (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
 He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Don't Stop the Carnival (Jimmy Buffett album)
Don't Stop the Carnival is the twenty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and was released on April 28, 1998.
 It is based on the 1965 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk.
 Wouk also worked with Buffett to produce the Don't Stop the Carnival stage play that lasted only a short run in Miami.
 The album includes 20 original compositions by Jimmy that were recorded to promote the stage play.
 It reached #15 in the Billboard 200 albums chart.
 It was Buffett's first album release with Island Records. Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen (born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese American novelist.
 He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
 Nguyen's debut novel, "The Sympathizer", won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other accolades, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
 It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.
 As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.
 (No Novel prize was awarded in 1917; the first was awarded in 1918.)