C. S. Forester
Birth date
August 27, 1899
Death date
April 2, 1966
Place of birth
Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt [now Egypt]
Profession
Writing
Age
66 years
Biography
Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 — 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Description above from the Wikipedia article C. S. Forester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Also known as
Cecil Louis Troughton SmithCecil Scott ForesterC.S. ForesterCS Forester
