James Norman Hall (April 22, 1887 - July 5, 1951) was a U.S. author. He was born in Colfax, Iowa, where he attended the local school. Hall graduated from Grinnell College in 1910 and became a social worker in Boston, Massachusetts. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Wikiquote has quotations relating to: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites White House - Official site of the US President Senate. ... Colfax is a city located in Jasper County, Iowa. ... Grinnell College Grinnell College is a four-year undergraduate liberal arts college located in Grinnell, Iowa. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... City nickname: Beantown, The Hub, The Athens of America Location in the state of Massachusetts Founded September 17, 1630 County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ...

Hall served in the British army during World War I, but switched to the Lafayette Flying Corps before the United States entered the war. After being shot down, he spent the last months of the conflict as a prisoner of war. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

After the war, Hall and Charles Nordhoff, another aviator, began cooperatively to write a series of adventure books. He spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote several books. In 1925 Hall married Sarah Winchester. Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887 - 1947) was a U.S. (English_born) novelist and traveler. ... Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, at 17°40′ S 149°30′ W. The island had a population of 169,674 inhabitants at the 2002 census. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Hall died in Tahiti, and is buried there.

Some publications of James N. Hall

• Kitchener's mob; the adventures of an American in the British Army (1916)
• High adventure; a narrative of air fighting in France (1918)
• Mid-Pacific (1928)
• Mutiny on the Bounty, with Nordhoff (1932)
• The friends (1939)
• Under a thatched roof, by James Norman Hall (1942)
• Lost island (1944)
• The Far Lands (1950)
• My island home, an autobiography (1952)