James Norman Hall

James Norman Hall (1887–1951) was an American novelist best known for his collaboration with Charles Nordhoff on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty. Published in 1932, the novel is based on the historical mutiny against Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty in 1789. Hall wrote the Polynesian sections of the book, while Nordhoff wrote the English parts, and they also collaborated on two sequels. Hall's work is distinct from that of James Hall (1793–1868), an earlier American author who wrote about the American frontier, and James Hall (1811–1898), a geologist and paleontologist.12345