Modern Era Naval Fiction Author

aircraftcarrierThe search result below lists those authors who have written Naval Fiction set in the Modern Era, mainly the two world wars. Authors are listed under their forename or initials.

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1. John Schettler
(Matching tags: John Schettler,ME Naval Fiction Author)
... simulation games in both the board and computer gaming industry, including four featured games for the industry leading magazine Strategy & Tactics.   Modern Era Naval Fiction Series: ...
2. Antony Trew
(Matching tags: AOS Nautical Fiction Author,ME Naval Fiction Author,ME Nautical Fiction Author,Antony Trew)
... the South African Naval Service followed, from 1926 to 1929. During the Depression he took a series of civilian jobs, and in 1933 became the Transvaal Secretary of the fledgling Automobile Association ...
3. D. A. Rayner
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,ME Naval Fiction Author,D. A. Rayner)
...  The Long Fight The story of the engagement between Piémontaise and HMS San Fiorenzo Modern Era Naval Fiction Series: n/a Year Book Comment 1943 ...
4. V. E. Ulett
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,V. E. Ulett)
A long time resident of California and professional in the electric power industry, V. E. Ulett is an avid reader as well as writer of historical fiction. The author's work is only available in audiobook ...
5. John Stevens
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,John Stevens)
John Stevens is a self-taught naval historian and life-long New England resident who began toying with writing while still in High School. From those beginnings he moved on to writing amateur movie scripts, ...
6. Chris Scott Wilson
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Chris Scott Wilson)
Chris Scott Wilson was born by the River Tees in Yorkshire, England, and was educated at Barnard Castle School and West Middlesbrough College Of Further Education. He has worked in the hotel trade, a newspaper ...
7. Percy F. Westerman
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,ME Naval Fiction Author,ME Nautical Fiction Author,Percy F. Westerman,Alan Carr,Golden Line)
...    The Mystery of the Key A party which, onboard a former trawler, set out to try their luck at sponge-getting. Modern Era Naval Fiction Series: n/a Year  ...
8. William Johnson Neale
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,William Johnson Neale)
... the murder of a man who had disappeared, having been seized by a pressgang.   The Port Admiral A Tale of the War 1825 Gentleman Jack A Naval Story   The Naval Surgeon ...
9. Philip McCutchan
(Matching tags: AOS Other Non Fiction Author,HNF Related Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,ME Naval Fiction Author,ME Nautical Fiction Author,Philip McCutchan,The Halfhyde Adventures,Donald Cameron RNVR,John Mason Kemp,Tom Chatto)
Philip Donald McCutchan (1920-1996), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Robert Conington Galway and Duncan MacNeil, grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime's interest ...
10. Hector Bywater
(Matching tags: ME Naval Fiction Author,Hector Bywater)
Hector Charles Bywater (1884-1940) was a British journalist and military writer who became a specialist in naval affairs at the beginning of the 20th century. Through his novel, 'The Great Pacific ...
11. Steven E. Maffeo
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,AOS Naval Non Fiction Author,Steven E. Maffeo)
... the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley); the U.S. Naval War College (Newport, R.I.); the Aurora (Colo.) Public Library; and the Air Force Academy. In 2008, Steve retired as a Navy captain – after ...
12. Cyril Abraham
(Matching tags: AOS Nautical Fiction Author,The Onedin Line,Cyril Abraham,ME Naval Fiction Author)
... 6 is by a different author - Bruce Stewart) Modern Era Naval Fiction Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment WWII The Blazing Ocean Cunning and seamanship ...
13. Nicholas Monsarrat
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Nicholas Monsarrat,ME Naval Fiction Author,ME Nautical Fiction Author)
... of an ambulance brigade and then as a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). His lifelong love of sailing made him a capable naval officer, and he served with distinction in a series of small ...
14. Douglas Reeman
(Matching tags: Royal Marine Fiction,Alexander Kent,Douglas Reeman,Blackwood Family,ME Naval Fiction Author,ME Other Non Fiction Author,ME Nautical Fiction Author)
... the Sea Captain Mike Blackwood serves in the Mediterranean 1970 Knife Edge Two Blackwoods serve in Malaysia Modern Era Naval Fiction Series: n/a Year  Book ...
15. Valerie Roosa
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Valerie Roosa,Henry Stapleton)
... on the Norfolk Broads in England. She is married to artist Frank Roosa who paints nautical scenes, boats and lighthouses. He is the cover artist for her naval fiction series. The couple owns the Day Star ...
16. Charles Gidley Wheeler
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Charles Gidley Wheeler,ME Naval Fiction Author)
... as an English spy, and travels to Cadiz and Lisbon, where the Spanish invasion force is assembling. Modern Era Naval Fiction Series: Jannaway Year  Book  Comment ...
17. Kenneth Roberts
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,Chronicles of Arundel,Kenneth Roberts)
... "for his historical novels which have long contributed to the creation of greater interest in our early American history." Some of his work is Historic Naval Fiction.   Series: Chronicles of ...
18. James Otis
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,James Otis)
James Otis is a pseudonym of James Otis Kaler (1848-1912) born in Winterport USA. He wrote over 150 adventure and patriotic biographies that had great appeal for his boy readers. Many were in ...
19. Lloyd M. Moxon
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Lloyd M. Moxon)
Lloyd M. Moxon has written one naval fiction novel. It was purportedly the first in a series, but it does not appear that follow-ups were written   Series: n/a Year  Book ...
20. Debra Sue Denson
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Debra Sue Denson)
Debra Sue Denson began her career as a costumer for various theatres in San Diego, California. After graduating college, economic factors determined a relocation to her hometown of Detroit, Michigan, ...
21. Andrew Hepburn
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Andrew Hepburn)
I have not found a biography for this author. A series of American travel books was published around the same year but it is not clear if it is the same person. He has written one HNF novel.   Series: ...
22. Bill Wall
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,Bill Wall,Donal Long)
William "Bill" Wall (born 1955) is an award winning Irish novelist, poet and short story writer. He was born in Cork City in 1955, but grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate. He is the author ...
23. Victor Mays
(Matching tags: Young Adult Fiction Author,Victor Mays,Historic Naval Fiction Author)
... the Korean War from 1952 to 1954 and afterward remained in the Naval Reserve as an officer and eventually attained the rank of captain. Following his discharge from active duty he concentrated ...
24. Mel McIlveen
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Mel McIlveen)
Canadian Mel McIlveen is an avid researcher and his books are based in historical figures and events of his native country. He has written one HNF novel set in the period of transition to steam  ...
25. J. P. W. Mallalieu
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,J. P. W. Mallalieu,ME Naval Fiction Author)
... of Captain Lord Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald   Modern Era Naval Fiction Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment WWII Very Ordinary Seaman Life on ...
26. M. Kei
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Gay Romance Author,M. Kei,Pirates of the Narrow Seas)
M. Kei  is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and apprenticed aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. He now serves with a fully ...
27. Roland Burnham Molineux
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Roland Burnham Molineux)
Roland Burnham Molineux (1866–1917) was a paint-factory chemist and social climber from Brooklyn. He was arrested for having sent a bottle of poisoned Bromo‐Seltzer to the manager of the Knickerbocker ...
28. Margaret Muir
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,Margaret Muir)
Born in England, Margaret Christine Muir now lives in Tasmania where she is a member of the Tasmanian Sail Training Association. During her travels, she has cruised round the coast of South America, crossed ...
29. F. Van Wyck Mason
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,AOS Pirate Fiction Author,American Revolution,F. Van Wyck Mason,Civil War)
... kind of warfare and frequently include naval battles or long sea voyages. As well as stand alone HNF novels, two of his series American Revolution and Civil War include some HNF novels.   Series: ...
30. Tobias George Smollett
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Tobias George Smollett)
... career in medicine came second to his literary ambitions, and in 1739 he went to London to seek his fortune as a dramatist. Unsuccessful, he obtained a commission as a naval surgeon on HMS Chichester and ...
31. Stephen W. Meader
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,AOS Pirate Fiction Author,Stephen W. Meader)
Stephen Warren Meader (1892-1977) was a Philadelphia-based advertising copywriter who wrote 44 books, all for young adults. Some are regarded as HNF   Series: n/a Year ...
32. Farnham Bishop
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Farnham Bishop)
Farnham Bishop (1886-1930) was born in New York, N. Y., a descendant of ten generations of New England farmers.  As his father was Secretary of the Isthmian - Canal Commission, he spent many of his vacations ...
33. Michael Molloy
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,Michael Molloy,Peter Raven)
Michael John Molloy (1940- ) is a writer of children's books and a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper. He lives in London, England, with his wife and children. He is the author ...
34. Nicholas Nicastro
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,John Paul Jones Trilogy,Nicholas Nicastro)
... first naval hero during the prime of his spectacular yet tragic career.   The author’s official web site is Nicastrobooks.com Link to forum for this author <script language="JavaScript" ...
35. Ronald Wanttaja
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,Ronald Wanttaja,Nate Lawtons War of 1812)
Ronald Wanttaja is an aerospace systems engineer and a freelance aviation journalist. He has also written an HNF series for young adults   Series: Nate Lawton's War of 1812 Year ...
36. Bruce Grant
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,AOS Naval Non Fiction Author,Bruce Grant)
...  AOS Naval Non Fiction Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment   Isaac Hull, Captain of Old Ironsides The life and fighting times of Isaac Hull ...
37. Charles Rathbone Low
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Charles Rathbone Low,AOS Naval Non Fiction Author)
...  Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment 1857 Tales of Naval Adventure   A navy ship puts into Mahe, one of the islands of the Seychelles group The Autobiography ...
38. Edward Buell Hungerford
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,Edward Buell Hungerford,ME Naval Fiction Author)
Edward Buell Hungerford (1900- ) has written two historic naval fiction books for young adults   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment   Fighting Frigate  ...
39. William Clark Russell
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,William Clark Russell)
... of his novels is Historic Naval Fiction.   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment   The Yarn of Old Harbour Town A captain's daughter is kidnapped and a pursuit and a fight ...
40. James Norman Hall
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,The Bounty Trilogy,James Norman Hall)
James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was born in Colfax, Iowa. After graduation he became a social worker in Boston, Massachusetts, and was on vacation in the UK when World War I began. Posing as a Canadian, ...
41. Charles Nordhoff (1887-1947) & James Norman Hall
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Charles Nordhoff 1887 1947,The Bounty Trilogy)
It was while fighting in France in WW I that the writing team of Charles Nordhoff and James Hall met. Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887-1947) was born in London to American parents ...
42. Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901)
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Charles Nordhoff 1830 1901)
Charles Nordhoff , 1830-1901, was an American journalist and author, born in Westphalia. After emigrating with his family to Cincinnati in 1835 he served in the US Navy (1844-47) and later on whaling and ...
43. Jan Vlachos Westcott
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,AOS Pirate Fiction Author,Jan Vlachos Westcott)
Jan Vlachos Westcott (1912- ) wrote a number of books mainly romances based around Scotland or set in the Elizabethan period. She wrote one romance which was also historic naval fiction based around ...
44. Arthur Anthony Gladd
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Young Adult Fiction Author,Arthur Anthony Gladd)
Arthur Anthony Gladd has written one historical naval fiction novel set at the time of the Turkish/Christian conflict at Lepanto   Series: n/a Year Book Comment 1571  Galleys ...
45. Herman Melville
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,Herman Melville)
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. He is best known for his longest novel, Moby-Dick, which won recognition in the 20th century as one of ...
46. John Lesterman
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,John Lesterman)
John Lesterman, a writer of sea fiction, has written two HNF novels for young adults.   Series: n/a Year Book Comment   A Sailor of Napoleon The story of a young mans ...
47. Carl D. Lane
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Carl D. Lane)
Carl Daniel Lane mainly wrote non-fiction works about the early American river steamboats and practical guides to boats and sailing. Among his novels his one about the sailing navies which is uniquely ...
48. Walter Karig
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Walter Karig)
Captain Walter Karig, U.S.N. (1898-1956) has written a number of reference books referring to World War II. He was also an author of television scripts for war-related programs. One of his novels was set ...
49. Bruce Weiser
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Bruce Weiser)
Bruce Weiser wrote two books about the adventures of Lt. Nicholas Chenevix R.N.   Series: The adventures of Lt. Nicholas Chenevix Year Book Comment 1805 The French ...
50. Michael Scott
(Matching tags: Historic Naval Fiction Author,Michael Scott)
Michael Scott (1789-1835) was a British author, born at Cowlairs near Glasgow, the son of a Glasgow merchant. He wrote two naval fiction books which were originally serialised in Blackwood's Magazine ...