Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966), better known by his pen name of C. S. Forester, was an English writer best known for his tales of naval warfare, but he also wrote a variety of other novels and screenplays.
Works by Forester with their own pages:
- The Horatio Hornblower series, and its adaptations:
- Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) starring Gregory Peck
- Horatio Hornblower (1998-2003), starring Ioan Gruffudd
- Death to the French, a.k.a. Rifleman Dodd.
- Brown On Resolution, adapted as Sailor of the King, 1953.
- The African Queen, adapted as a film in 1951.
- The Good Shepherd, adapted as Greyhound, 2020.
Other works:
- Payment Deferred, 1926
- The Daughter of the Hawk, 1928
- Plain Murder, 1930
- Two-and-Twenty, 1931
- The Gun, 1932
- The General, 1936
- The Earthly Paradise, a.k.a. To the Indies, 1940
- The Captain from Connecticut, 1941
- The Ship, 1943
- The Sky and the Forest, 1948
- Randall and the River of Time, 1950
- Gold from Crete 1971 (posthumous)
- The Pursued, 2011 (posthumous)
