Word: monsarrat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade journal The Bookseller, British Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, who saw World War II from a Royal Navy bridge and told his story in The Cruel Sea (about 800,000 copies sold), trained his guns on Herman Wouk, U.S.N.R. and The Caine Mutiny (about 2,000,000 copies). Wouk's novel of life on a minesweeper, said Monsarrat, "is most readable, often engrossing, and as true an account . . . as a ten-year-old child's drawing of an aircraft carrier...
Married. Nicholas Monsarrat, 42, British author of the bestselling novel The Cruel Sea; and Philippa Crosby, 34, to whom he dedicated his book; he for the second time, she for the first; in Johannesburg, South Africa...
After 13 years of marriage, Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, now British information officer in South Africa, was divorced by his wife Eileen...
...Johannesburg, where he is United Kingdom information officer, Bestselling Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, insured his new manuscript...
...plentiful variety of good seagoing fare. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny rolled in first, more than a year ago;* since then there has been a flood tide of such salty works as Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea Wind, Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of convoys battling The Cruel Sea, and Commander Edward L. Beach's Submarine! The latest sample of the true brine is Jan de Hartog's The Distant Shore, a Literary Guild selection for September...