CS Forester

CS Forester was a novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, which depicted a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars.

The Happy Return (1937), A Ship of the Line (1938), Flying Colours (1938), The Commodore (1945), Lord Hornblower (1946), Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950), Lieutenant Hornblower (1952), Hornblower and the Atropos (1953), Hornblower in the West Indies (1958), Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962), Hornblower and the Crisis (1967), The Last Encounter (1967), and Hornblower and the Widow McCool (1967).

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Several of his works were filmed, including The African Queen (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, directed by John Huston. Forester was also a credited story writer for several movies not based on his published fiction, including Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) and Sink the Bismark! (1960).

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those editors or publishers.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

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