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Answer : C.S. FORESTER
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott “C. S.” Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks).
C.S. Forester, in full Cecil Scott Forester, (born August 27, 1899, Cairo, Egypt—died April 2, 1966, Fullerton, California, U.S.), British historical novelist and journalist best known as the creator of the British naval officer Horatio Hornblower, whose rise from midshipman to admiral and peer during the Napoleonic Wars is told in a series of 12 novels, beginning with The Happy Return (1937; U.S. title Beat to Quarters).
Abandoning medicine for writing, Forester achieved success with his first novel, Payment Deferred (1926); others included Brown on Resolution (1929), The Gun (1933), The General (1936), and The Ship (1943). Many of his novels were adapted to motion pictures; most notable among them is The African Queen (1935), which was made into an extraordinarily successful film in 1951 by writer James Agee and director John Huston. Forester also wrote biographies and history books, including The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (1959; also titled Sink the Bismarck!). Forester described the genesis and progress of the Hornblower series in the self-revealing Hornblower Companion (1964). He was a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. During World War II he worked as a propagandist in Great Britain and the United States. The last of the Hornblower books, Hornblower and the Crisis (1967), was published posthumously.
More Clues
- GO FAR Win at life
- FEINT Make a pretence at life in the revelation of it
- HABIT Custom of executing at living area
- EVENS If you win at these odds, you’ll win the same as you bet
- PLACE Almost win at the track
- BETON Pick to win at the track
- TWAIN Couple win at play
- LOWER Where to go to win at limbo
- BID ON Try to win at eBay, say
- CECIL Flat-racing legend who trained Frankel before and after his win at the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in 2011
- MEDAL Something you might win at the Olympics
- BEATS Searches riverside after big win at baccarat.
- GET TO Succeed at being annoying: 2 wds.
- WINGS Sides that succeed at golf, son
- MATES Wins at chess
- ON TOP Apt to succeed at the summit
- MOYES Who did Louis van Gaal succeed at Old Trafford?
- LEARN Succeed at school, with inclination to accept basic element of education
- GAIA James Lovelock book subtitled “A New Look at Life on Earth”
- BUSHCRAFT Skill at living in wild country
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