C. S. Forester

It was the British novelist C. S. Forester, whose swashbuckling tales of maritime adventure had enthralled Roald as an adolescent.

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He got to know C. S. Forester, Ben Travers and Noël Coward, and was welcomed in their Washington and Manhattan circles.

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Roald was staying at her apartment when he attended the New York premiere of Eagle Squadron, a propaganda movie, co-written by C. S. Forester, about U.S. airmen who had volunteered to fight for the RAF before Pearl Harbor.

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As Roald and Pat, who was more than five months pregnant, boarded the boat back from New York to England in early April, Roald was pleasantly surprised to find that many of his fellow passengers, including C. S. Forester—the man who had first encouraged him to begin writing almost twenty years earlier—were reading it.

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Yet I understand C. S. Forester meant these stories for adult readers.

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-I promise you, this is not modern fan-fiction, but an excerpt from the opening pages of Beat to Quarters 1937, a Captain Horatio Hornblower novel, by C. S. Forester.

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Yet I understand C. S. Forester meant these stories for adult readers.

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3. Name the leaky old craft which was the title of a 1935 novel by C. S. Forester, filmed in 1951 with Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt.

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3. Name the leaky old craft which was the title of a 1935 novel by C. S. Forester, filmed in 1951 with Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt.

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Aware that Disney’s interest was a key card in his hand, he picked up the phone to the only person he trusted to help him, C. S. Forester’s agent, Harold Matson.

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