His non-fiction seafaring works include The Age of Fighting Sail (1956), an account of the sea battles between Great Britain and the United States in the War of 1812. Forester also published the crime novels Payment Deferred (1926) and Plain Murder (1930), as well as two children's books.
Landmark Books, Random House 1957 The Naval War of 1812.
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C.
He began writing seriously around 1921 using his pen name. ==Second World War== Forester moved to the United States during the Second World War, where he worked for the British Ministry of Information and wrote propaganda to encourage the US to join the Allies.
A previously unknown novel of Forester's entitled The Pursued was discovered in 2003 and published by Penguin Classics on 3 November 2011. == Personal life == He married Kathleen Belcher in 1926 and they had two sons, John and George Forester.
He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel that he wrote, which was published in 1937.
Western Mail, 28 April 1937 "Who Is Financing Franco?".
Aberdeen Press & Journal, 5 May 1937 "Saga of the Submarines".
The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938.
The last of the stories in Gold from Crete was "If Hitler had invaded England", which offers an imagined sequence of events starting with Hitler's attempt to implement Operation Sea Lion, and culminating in the early military defeat of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941.
He met Roald Dahl in 1942 while living in Washington, D.C., and Forester encouraged him to write about his experiences in the RAF.
The couple divorced in 1945.
Falkirk Herald, 1 August 1945 "Hollywood Coincidence".
In 1947, he married Dorothy Foster. John Forester wrote a two-volume biography of his father, including many elements of Forester's life which only became clear to his son after his death. ==Bibliography== ===Horatio Hornblower=== 1950 Mr.
His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks). ==Early years== Forester was born in Cairo and moved with his mother to London after a family breakup at an early age, where he was educated at Alleyn's School and Dulwich College.
Liverpool Echo, 1955 ===Posthumous=== 1967 Long before Forty (autobiographical).
The Barbary Pirates (1953) is a children's history of early 19th-century pirates. Forester appeared as a contestant on the television quiz programme You Bet Your Life hosted by Groucho Marx, in an episode broadcast on 1 November 1956.
The last completed novel was published in 1962.
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C.
Sunday Mirror, 8 May 1966 (posthumous). 1964 The Hornblower Companion.
Heinemann. 1935 The Pursued (a lost novel rediscovered in 1999), unpublished until 2011, published posthumously by Penguin Classics 1936 The General.
Forester and the Hornblower saga (Syracuse University Press, 1999) Van der Kiste, John, C.S.
A previously unknown novel of Forester's entitled The Pursued was discovered in 2003 and published by Penguin Classics on 3 November 2011. == Personal life == He married Kathleen Belcher in 1926 and they had two sons, John and George Forester.
A previously unknown novel of Forester's entitled The Pursued was discovered in 2003 and published by Penguin Classics on 3 November 2011. == Personal life == He married Kathleen Belcher in 1926 and they had two sons, John and George Forester.
Heinemann. 1935 The Pursued (a lost novel rediscovered in 1999), unpublished until 2011, published posthumously by Penguin Classics 1936 The General.
Forester's Crime Noir: A view of the murder stories (KDP, 2018) == External links == C.
His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks). ==Early years== Forester was born in Cairo and moved with his mother to London after a family breakup at an early age, where he was educated at Alleyn's School and Dulwich College.
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