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C. S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
(27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name
Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester
, was an English novelist known for writing tales of
naval warfare
such as the 12-book
Horatio Hornblower
series, depicting a
Royal Navy
officer during the
Napoleonic wars
. His other works include
The African Queen
(1935; filmed in 1951 by
John Huston
), as well as
A Ship of the Line
and
Flying Colours
, which were jointly awarded the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
for fiction in 1938.
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