Word: nordhoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Authors. In a Nordhoff & Hall novel, readers often wonder which wrote what. In the case of Botany Bay the answer is simple: Nordhoff wrote the odd-numbered chapters, Hall the even. They had previously divvied up the research, roughed out the story together. That took them six years. They wrote the book in eight months. They exchanged chapters as they finished them, hacking and cutting each other's work, gradually blending it into a single style...
Their remarkable collaboration really began a few weeks after the Armistice when Nordhoff was sitting around the American Air Service headquarters in Paris. An officer, whose name he can't remember, introduced him to Hall. Nordhoff had been in the Lafayette Flying Corps. Hall was in the Lafayette Esquadrille...
...some lonely place to write. Their first lonely place turned out to be New England. William Kissam Vanderbilt, who largely financed the Lafayette Flying Corps, commissioned them to write its official history. Then Harper's offered Hall a contract to visit the South Seas and write travel stories. Nordhoff wangled "some sort of contract" out of the Atlantic. They set off for Australia, touched at Tahiti, made their home there...
...present they have no plans for another book. Says Nordhoff: "What can we do? This is not the time to write our kind of story. To hell with those ivory towers. Both of us are trying to get some kind of war work. What, I don't know, since we're both 54. Hall tried to join up with the Canadian Air Force, but was turned down. Best I can do immediately is write and work for the Federal Union group. I can't understand how Jane Austen could have written her Pride and Prejudice during...
Hall returned to Tahiti last May, with his wife and daughter. Nordhoff is living with his young, pretty second wife (he and his native wife are divorced) and three very beautiful daughters on the old Hope Ranch near Santa Barbara...