1. Charles Bernard Nordhoff was an American novelist and traveler, born in England.
14 Facts About Charles Nordhoff
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Charles Nordhoff was born in London, England, on February 1,1887, to American parents.
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Charles Nordhoff's father was Walter Nordhoff, a wealthy businessman and author of The Journey of the Flame penned under the name "Antonio de Fierro Blanco".
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Charles Nordhoff's parents returned to the United States with him in 1889, living first in Pennsylvania, then Rhode Island, and finally settling in California by 1898.
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Charles Nordhoff's first published work was an article in an ornithological journal, written in 1902 when he was just fifteen.
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Charles Nordhoff quit in 1916, signed up with the Ambulance Corps, and traveled to France.
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Charles Nordhoff finished World War I as a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Service.
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Charles Nordhoff married a Tahitian woman, Christianne Vahine Tua Tearae Smidt, with whom he had four daughters and two sons.
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Charles Nordhoff wrote novels on his own for ten years, of which The Derelict was considered his finest solo effort.
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Charles Nordhoff produced one more solo book, In Yankee Windjammers, a retelling of the ships, sailors, and way of life about which his grandfather had written.
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Charles Nordhoff divorced his first wife in 1936, left Tahiti a few years later, and returned to California, where in 1941 he married Laura Grainger Whiley.
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Charles Bernard Nordhoff died alone at his home in Montecito, California, on April 10,1947.
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Charles Nordhoff's body was found the next morning by Tod Ford, who had called on him to work on their book.
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Charles Nordhoff is buried in the Redlands, California, Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.