C. S. Forester | |
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| Born | Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 27 August 1899 Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt |
| Died | 2 April 1966 (aged 66) Fullerton, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Alleyn's School, Dulwich College |
| Genre | Adventure, drama, sea stories |
| Spouse | Kathleen Belcher
(m. 1926; div. 1945)Dorothy Foster (m. 1947) |
| Children | John (1929-2020); George |
C.S. Forester was the pen name used by the British author Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966). He is best known for a series of novels featuring Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Other works include The African Queen and The Good Shepherd, both of which were later adapted as movies.
During World War II, he moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked for the British Ministry of Information, writing propaganda for the Allied cause. He subsequently settled in Fullerton, California, where he died in 1966 of complications arising from a stroke.