author
James Norman Hall
1887–1951
Best known for co-writing Mutiny on the Bounty, he lived a life that was almost as adventurous as his fiction. A World War I aviator and longtime Tahiti resident, he brought travel, danger, and the South Pacific vividly into his books.
4 Audiobooks
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
by James Norman Hall
High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
by James Norman Hall
Faery Lands of the South Seas
by James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff
Faery Lands of the South Seas
by James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff
About the author
Born in Colfax, Iowa, in 1887, James Norman Hall became an American writer whose work was shaped by real adventure. During World War I, he served with Allied forces and was known for the unusual distinction of serving in the armed forces of three countries: Britain, France, and the United States.
Hall is most closely associated with Charles Nordhoff, with whom he wrote The Bounty Trilogy — including Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. Their retelling of the famous 1789 mutiny made Hall widely known and helped secure his place in popular historical fiction.
He settled in Tahiti in the 1920s, where he built a home and continued writing. That South Pacific life became central to both his imagination and his legacy, and his former home in Tahiti is remembered as part of his story. Hall died in 1951.