Nordhoff and Hall were a team of American authors. Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887-1947) and James Norman Hall (1887-1951) became famous for their three novels about an actual mutiny in the British Navy in 1789. These novels are Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934), and Pitcairn’s Island (1934). The first novel describes how the crew of the Bounty mutinied against their cruel captain, William Bligh. The second novel tells about the hardships of Bligh and his followers after they were set adrift in a small boat. The final novel follows the lives of the crew and their descendants after they settled on Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Nordhoff was born on Feb. 1, 1887, in London, and Hall was born on April 22, 1887, in Colfax, Iowa. They met while serving as pilots in the Lafayette Escadrille, a French and American air squadron, during World War I (1914-1918). In 1920, Nordhoff and Hall sailed for Tahiti, where they lived for many years. The men wrote several novels together as well as a number of works individually. Nordhoff died on April 11, 1947, and Hall died on July 6, 1951.
