H. Taprell Dorling H. Taprell Dorling Captain Henry Taprell Dorling (1883-1968) was a British sailor, author, and journalist who served in the Royal Navy during both world wars, giving his marine fact and fiction a notable authenticity. His Pincher Martin, O.D. (1916) is widely referenced as the source for Pincher Martin (1956) by Nobel prizewinner William Golding. He wrote under the name Taffrail. Dorling was born in Berwick, the second son of Colonel Francis Dorling, and named Taprell Henry, but later changed the order of his names. He entered the HMS "Britannia" in August 1897, his 1113 marks placing him fifty-eighth in merit
Joe Martin (Author, director) Joe Martin (Author, director) Joe Martin (born 1953) is a playwright, author and theatre director born in Norwalk, Connecticut and living in Washington DC, USA. In addition to two volumes of fiction, his theatrical works were presented in North America and Europe. His essays on theatre, arts in the Middle East, and religion were also known under the pen name Yousef Daoud. Martin received his undergraduate education at George Washington University where he studied American Literature and attended Astere Claeyssens's creative writing courses. At the University of Bergen in Norway, he took exams in Comparative Literature in 1979. He went