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born: 8/27/1899 died: 4/2/1966 born as: Cecil Scott Forester
British historical novelist and journalist, best known as the creator of the British naval officer Horatio Hornblower, whose rise from midshipman to admiral and peer during the Napoleonic Wars is told in a series of 12 novels. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature