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C. S. Forester

1899 - 1966

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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). During the Second World War he moved to Washington D.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. S. Forester has received more than 1,018,644 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). C. S. Forester is the 3,194th most popular writer (down from 3,142nd in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 379th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Egyptian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lord Hornblower
Fiction, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval History
As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
1946
A ship of the line
History, Naval, Open Library Staff Picks, Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character)
1920
The African Queen
Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Man-woman relationships
1935
The gun
Guerrillas, Spain in fiction, History
A gripping story of Spanish resistance to Napoleonic France. Told by a young man who follows various charismatic and ruthless leaders as the 'wife' of a massive gun. [Dramatised][1] by the BBC. A product of a non-market-based media organisation, whose only focus is on the quality of what they produce [1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zd70g
1933
Hornblower in the West Indies
Fiction, Naval History, Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character)
As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
1958
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Literature, Fiction in English, Fiction
1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command... As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's Navy, Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.
1920

Page views of C. S. Foresters by language

Over the past year C. S. Forester has had the most page views in the with 128,653 views, followed by German (9,591), and Russian (6,687). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (218.42%), Simple English (92.08%), and Egyptian Arabic (63.13%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, C. S. Forester ranks 3,194 out of 7,302. Before him are Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Ildefonso Falcones, Naoya Shiga, Stefanie Zweig, Sigurd Hoel, and Tiziano Terzani. After him are Anne Tyler, José Giovanni, Jiří Dienstbier, Mihály Babits, Ruben Sevak, and Caspar Barlaeus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, C. S. Forester ranks 154. Before him are Susannah Mushatt Jones, Suryakant Tripathi, Fritz von Opel, Joseph Guillemot, Richard Hartshorne, and Li Lisan. After him are Harold Abrahams, Robert Casadesus, Udham Singh, Gerhard von Schwerin, Josep Tarradellas, and Carlo Rosselli. Among people deceased in 1966, C. S. Forester ranks 111. Before him are Felix von Luckner, Gaspar Cassadó, Lenny Bruce, Vicente Rojo Lluch, Natacha Rambova, and Hans Hofmann. After him are Hedda Hopper, Julie Manet, Joseph A. Walker, Albrecht Brandi, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, and Gʻafur Gʻulom.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, C. S. Forester ranks 413 out of 642. Before him are Ali Sabri (1920), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), Pope Theonas of Alexandria (300), Osorkon IV (-800), Sayf al-Din Khushqadam (1413), and Al-Ashraf Kujuk (1334). After him are Haim Saban (1944), Safiya Zaghloul (1876), André Aciman (1951), Moustafa Madbouly (1966), Richard Anthony (1938), and Al-Salih Hajji (1372).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, C. S. Forester ranks 40. Before him are Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), Farag Foda (1946), Salama Moussa (1887), Georges Schehadé (1905), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), and Eutychius of Alexandria (877). After him are André Aciman (1951), Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Doria Shafik (1908), Bat Ye'or (1933), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), and Yusuf Idris (1927).

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