Charles Nordhoff

Charles Bernard Nordhoff was born in 1887 in London, England, to American parents, and grew up in California and Mexico. He graduated from Harvard University in 1909. During the First World War he served as an ambulance driver in France and then as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps, where he met James Norman Hall, another American aviator. After the war the two men were asked to write a history of the corps, and in 1920 they moved together to Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they lived for many years and married local women. They wrote several books together, the most famous being their trilogy about the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island. The first was made into an Academy Award–winning film in 1935. Nordhoff also wrote books on his own, including stories for young readers. He returned to California, where he died in 1947.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; his mother came from a Pennsylvania Quaker family. Source: Wikipedia