Who created the character of Horatio Hornblower?
Horatio Hornblower series she accrues promotions, peerages, and other honours. By the time of the most recent novels Harrington is a Fleet Admiral (NATO O-11 equivalent), a duchess, the recipient of two different nations' highest military decorations, and so on. Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga uses the Hornblower series as a structural model. Horatio Hornblower Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Napoleonic Wars-era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films, radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a definitive biography The original Hornblower tales began
Horatio Hornblower S. Forester to create his Lord Ramage series of novels set around the same period. Gene Roddenberry was influenced by the Hornblower character while creating the "Star Trek" characters James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard. Nicholas Meyer, director of some of the Star Trek films, frequently cites Horatio Hornblower as one of his primary influences. David Weber's character Honor Harrington closely parallels Hornblower and he deliberately gave her the same initials. Like Hornblower, the reader first meets Harrington in junior command rank, the daughter of doctors from a fairly modest background and lacking patronage of any sort, and throughout the