James Norman Hall

James Norman Hall was born in 1887 in Colfax, Iowa, and graduated from Grinnell College in 1910. He worked as a social worker in Boston. In 1914, while on vacation in Britain when the First World War began, he enlisted in the British Army, passing himself off as a Canadian, and served as an infantryman; his book Kitchener's Mob described the experience. He then joined the Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron of American volunteer pilots flying for France, and later the United States Army Air Service. He was shot down and spent the last months of the war as a prisoner. He received the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire, the Légion d'Honneur and the Distinguished Service Cross. He met Charles Nordhoff in the flying corps, and after the war the two moved to Tahiti, where Hall married a local woman and lived for the rest of his life. Together they wrote Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, as well as other adventure novels. He died in Tahiti in 1951.

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