James Norman Hall
James Norman Hall Hall in the Lafayette Escadrille, 1917 Born (1887-04-22)22 April 1887 Colfax, Iowa Died 5 July 1951(1951-07-05) (aged 64) Tahiti Occupation novelist, memoirist Nationality American Period 1916–1951 Genre Adventure fiction Subject War memoir Website www.jamesnormanhallhome.pf/indexen.html James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman and then flying for France and later the United States.