James Norman Hall
American author (1887-1951) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 64
James Norman Hall was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, a series of historical novels co-authored with Charles Bernard Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934), and Pitcairn's Island (1934).
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Charles Nordhoff Also in Mutiny on the Bounty and The Hurricane
John Ford Directed The Hurricane (1937)
Frank Lloyd Directed Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Samuel Goldwyn Produced The Hurricane (1937)
Michael Curtiz Directed Passage to Marseille (1944)
Irving Thalberg Produced Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)- Charles Vidor Directed The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Jack Conway Directed High Barbaree (1947)
Movita Castaneda Also in Mutiny on the Bounty and The Hurricane
Sol Lesser Produced The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Victor Francen Also in The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Mamo Clark Also in Mutiny on the Bounty and The Hurricane- Everett Riskin Produced High Barbaree (1947)
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Hall standing beside a French SPAD fighter during his service in the Aéronautique Militaire, circa mid-1917 to early 1918
The wreckage of Hall’s aircraft after being shot down over German lines on May 7, 1918. The handwritten caption on the reverse reads: "J. N. Hall's machine fallen inside the German lines." Photograph by an unidentified German photographer, circa May 1918. From the Ellery Sedgwick photograph collection.
Hall with fellow Allied prisoners at a German prison camp in Landshut, Bavaria, October 1918. Hall sent this photograph to his editor at The Atlantic Monthly, Ellery Sedgwick, with the handwritten note: "To Mr. Sedgwick with all good wishes from the Kriegsgefangener, Landshut, Bavaria. Jamie Hall, October 1918.”
Edward Penfield poster for Hall's memoir, High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France (1918)Awards
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During World War I, Hall uniquely served in the armed forces of three Allied nations - Great Britain as an infantryman, and later France and the United States as an aviator. His wartime honors include the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire, the Légion d'Honneur, and the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, he settled in Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure novels, many of which were adapted into films. He was also the father of Conrad L. Hall, a three-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer.
