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Forester, Cecil Scott (C. S. Forester)

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Born: 1899 AD
Died: 1966 AD, at 66 years of age.

Nationality: British
Categories: Authors

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1899 - Born on August 27th in Cairo, Egypt. British historical novelist, biographer, and journalist, best-known as the creator of Horatio Hornblower, a swashbuckling hero and naval officer in Nelson's time, whose career is told in a series of a dozen books.

1915 - Forester was educated at Alleyne's School and he entered Dulwich College.

1921 - Abandoned his studies for writing, taking the pen name Cecil Scott Forester.

1926 - Married to Kathleen Belcher.

1929 - He wrote novels and biographies, among others Napoleon and His Court, and Josephine, Napoleon's Empress, and novels Payment Deferred, which gained critical success, and Brown on Resolution.

1932 - Forester was offered a Hollywood contract.

1935-1938 - He wrote novels "The African Queen", "The Happy Return" and "Ship of the Line".

1939 - He reported on the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

1943 - Forester's writing career stopped for some years when he was stricken with arteriosclerosis.

1946 - Married to Dorothy Ellen Foster on May.

1961 - Forester continued to write after a severe heart attack and was later on paralyzed.

1966 - Died on April 2nd in Fullerton, California.

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