Charles Nordhoff(1887-1947)

Writer

Charles Nordhoff was born on 1 February 1887 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Hurricane (1937) and High Barbaree (1947). He was married to Laura Grainger Whiley and Christianne 'Vahine Tua' Tearae Smidt. He died on 10 April 1947 in Santa Barbara County, California, USA.

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Mutiny on the Bounty

7.6

Writer

1935

The Hurricane

7.1

Writer

1937

High Barbaree

6.4

Writer

1947

Mutiny on the Bounty

7.2

Writer

1962

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Hurricane
4.7
- novel
- 1979
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.2
- novel
- 1962
Botany Bay
6.1
- novel
- 1952
High Barbaree
6.4
- based on the novel by
- 1947
Passage to Marseille
6.8
- novel
- 1944
The Tuttles of Tahiti
6.0
- from the novel "No More Gas"
- 1942
The Hurricane
7.1
- from the novel by
- 1937
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.6
- book
- 1935

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Born
- February 1, 1887
- London, England, UK
Died
- April 10, 1947
- Santa Barbara County, California, USA
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Other works
Novel: "Botany Bay" (filmed as Botany Bay (1952))

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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 453-454 (joint entry with James Norman Hall). New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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