Writing

C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester es conocido sobre todo por Hornblower y Augsburger Puppenkiste - Drachen hat nicht jeder. C. S. Forester nació el 27 de agosto de 1899. C. S. Forester murió el 2 de abril de 1966 a los 66 años.

Nacimiento: 27 de agosto de 1899
Lugar de nacimiento: Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt [now Egypt]
Fallecimiento: 2 de abril de 1966 (66 años)

Biografía

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.

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