Naval Fiction

Article in Adult Fiction category.

• Edward Beach

Beach served as Executive Officer of the USS Tirante during World War II, experience which contributed to his best-known novel, Run Silent, Run Deep from which a film starring Clark Gable was made. His father, Edward L. Beach, Sr. was also an author who wrote non-fiction and young adult novels..

• John T. Campbell
• Eric Collenette
• Bill Collett
• Frank Eccles
• C.S. Forester
• Charles Gidley
• Max Hennessy
• Harry Homewood
• Richard Hough
• Alexander Kent
• Dewey Lambdin
• Kenneth Maynard
• Philip McCutchan
• Richard McKenna
• Nicholas Monsarrat
• James L. Nelson
• Charles Nordhoff

While The Bounty Trilogy closely follows the facts of the famous mutiny very closely, the conspiracy, Bligh's incredible open-boat voyage, and the tragic fate of the mutineers form a story as dramatic as anything in naval fiction.

• Patrick O'Brian

Some readers feel O'Brian's prose echoes Jane Austen's, which is only fitting since she wrote at the time in which his hero, Jack Aubry, lived. The era of the Napoleonic Wars is remarkable for the fiction it has inspired.

• C. Northcote Parkinson
• Dudley Pope
• Douglas Reeman
• Victor Suthern
• John Wingate
• Richard Woodman