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Date of Birth

27 August 1899, Cairo, Egypt

Date of Death

2 April 1966, Fullerton, California, USA

Birth Name

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith

Mini Biography

'Cecil Scott Forester' was born on 27th August, 1899 in Cairo, Egypt. He was educated in England at Alleyn's School and Dulwich College, at neither of which, he said, he made any particular impression except as an extremely naughty boy. He left Dulwich College and attempted to take up medicine but soon found that his real vocation was storytelling and writing. Always an enthusiastic reader as a child (he used to devour complete encyclopedias) he used his extensive and eclectic knowledge to make his stories very readable and popular. He is possibly most famous for the Hornblower series of novels which intersperse tales of great human understanding with a high level of technical expertise - even though he was never in the navy.

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Mini Biography

C.S. Forester went to Holywood during the opening years of World War II to help write and produce "propaganda" films that would convince U.S. filmgoers that the they should take the side of the British and Allies in the War, which led to such films as Eagle Squadron (1942).

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Spouse

Dorothy Ellen Foster	(May 1946 - ?)
Kathleen Belcher	(1926 - ?) (divorced) 2 children John and George

Trivia

Was responsible for discovering Roald Dahl and getting him published.

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