Charles Nordhoff, English-American lieutenant, pilot, and author (died 1947)

Charles Nordhoff

English-born American novelist and traveler

Charles Bernard Nordhoff was an American novelist and traveler, born in England. Nordhoff is perhaps best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with James Norman Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934).…