Male : Novelist. Married Katherine Belcher in 1926, divorced 1944. He remarried in 1947 (Dorothy Foster) and moved to Berkeley, California but was confined to a wheelchair with arteriosclerosis

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Cairo, Egypt

Date of Birth : 1899 Date of Death : 1966 Age : 67

Other Work : Foreign Correspondent for The Times

Education : Alleyne's School, Dulwich College, Guy's Hospital (Medicine - failed to obtain degree)

1924-1930
Napoleon and His Court (1924 Methuen) (1924 Dodd Mead)
Josephine, Napoleon's Empress (1924 Methuen) (1924 Dodd Mead)
A Pawn Among Kings (1924 Methuen)
The Paid Piper (1924 Methuen) - ss
Payment Deferred (1923 Methuen) (1942 Little Brown)
Love Lies Dreaming (1927 JL, Bodley Head) (1927 Bobbs Merrill)
The Wonderful Week (1927 JL, Bodley Head) (as "One Wonderful Week" 1927 Bobbs Merrill)
Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy (1927 Methuen) (1927 Dodd Mead)
Louis XIV : King of France and Navarre (1928 Methuen) (1928 Dodd Mead)
The Shadow of the Hawk (1928 JL, Bodley Head)
(as "The Daughter of the Hawk" in 1928 Bobbs Merrill)
Brown on Resolution (1929 JL, Bodley Head) (as "Single Handed" 1929 Putnam)
[Filmed in 1935, and then in 1953 as "Single-Handed"]
Nelson (1929 John Lane) (as "Lord Nelson" 1929 Bobbs Merrill)
The Voyage of the 'Annie Marble' (1929 John Lane, The Bodley Head)
The 'Annie Marble' in Germany (1930 John Lane, The Bodley Head)
Plain Murder (1930 JL, Bodley Head) (1954 Dell pb)

1931-1940
Two and Twenty (1931 JL, Bodley Head) (1931 Appleton) - ss
U.97 (1931 John Lane) - Play
Death to the French (1932 JL, Bodley Head) (as "Rifleman Dodd" 1942 Little Brown)
The Gun : A Novel (1933 JL, Bodley Head) (1933 Little Brown)
[Filmed in 1957 as "The Pride and the Passion"]
Nurse Cavell in 3 Acts (1933 JL, Bodley Head) - with C E Bechofer Roberts)
The Peacemaker (1934 Heinemann) (1934 Little Brown)
The African Queen (1935 Little Brown) - c 2500 copies (1935 Heinemann)
[Filmed in 1951]
The General (1936 Michael Joseph) (1936 Little Brown)
Marionettes at Home (1936 Michael Joseph)
The Earthly Paradise (1940 Michael Joseph) (as "To the Indies" in 1940 Little Brown)

1941-1950
The Captain from Connecticut (1941 Michael Joseph) (1941 Little Brown)
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942 MJ) (1942 Little Brown) - for children. Robert Lawson
The Ship (1943 Michael Joseph) (1943 Little Brown)
The Bedchamber Mystery (1944 S J Saunders, Toronto) - only edition
The Sky and the Forest (1948 Michael Joseph 8/6) (1948 Little Brown)

After 1951
Randall and the River of Time (1951 Michael Joseph) (1951 Little Brown)
The Barbary Pirates (1953 Random House) (1956 Macdonald) - Charles J. Mazouijan - for children
The Nightmare (1954 Michael Joseph) (1954 Little Brown) - ss
The Good Shepherd (1955 Michael Joseph) (1955 Little Brown)
The Naval War of 1812 (1957 Michael Joseph)
The Age of Fighting Sail : The story of the Naval War of 1912 (1956 Doubleday)
[Same title as above]
Hunting the Bismarck (1959 Michael Joseph)
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (1959 Little Brown)
[Same as above title]
The Hornbblower Companion (1964 Michael Joseph) (1964 Little Brown)
Long Before Forty (1967 Michael Joseph) (1968 Little Brown) - Autobiography
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969 Michael Joseph) (1969 Little Brown) - ss
Gold from Crete (1970 Little Brown) (1971 Michael Joseph) - ss

HORNBLOWER NOVELS
(All UK by Michael Joseph & USA by Little Brown)
Beat to Quarters (1937) (in UK as "The Happy Return" - in 1937)
[A copy of the UK first sold at auction in 1999 for £632]
A Ship of the Line (1938) (1938)
Flying Colours (1938) (1938)
Captain Hornblower RN (1939) - Omnibus (in US as "Captain Horatio Hornblower" 1939)
[Filmed in 1951]
Commodore Hornblower (1945) (in UK as "The Commodore" - 1945)
Lord Hornblower (1946) (1946)
Mr Midshipman Hornblower (1950) (1950)
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952) (1952)
Hornblower and the Atropos (1953) (1953)
Hornblower Takes Command (1953 LB) - Omnibus
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1958) (in UK as "Hornblower in the West Indies" - in 1958)
Young Hornblower (1960) (1964 MJ) - Omnibus
Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962) (1962)
The Indomitable Hornblower (1963 LB) - Omnibus
Hornblower's Triumph (1965 LB) - Omnibus
Hornblower and the Crisis : An Unfinished Novel (1967 MJ)
(1967 in USA as "Hornblower During the Crisis")
Admiral Hornblower (1968 MJ)- Omnibus

READING
C Northcote Parkinson : The Life & Times of Horatio Hornblower (1970 Michael Joseph)
(1970 Little Brown)
Sanford C S Sternlicht : C S Forester (1981 Twayne, US)