Smith , Cecil Lewis Troughton , 1899-1966 , novelist x Forester , Cecil Scott

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith was born in Egypt to British parents and educated in Britain before becoming a writer under the pseudonym C S Forester. After the Second World War he settled permanently in the United States. He is now best known as the author of The African Queen (1935) and a series of historical novels about a naval officer, Horatio Hornblower (1937-1962); both of these have become well known through film and television adaptations.