Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

Charles Bernard Nordhoff was born in London in 1887 to American parents and grew up in California. A Harvard graduate in 1909, he left for France in 1916 as an ambulance driver, then became a pilot in a French air force unit that brought together American volunteers. Entrusted after the war with writing its history with James Norman Hall, who had also served in it, he settled with him in Tahiti in the early twenties; the two men co-signed about ten books. Divorced from his Tahitian wife, he returned to California, where he died in 1947.

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• NovelMutiny on the BountyCharles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall · 1932Literature