James Norman Hall

Emerging from a modest Iowa upbringing and a Grinnell College education followed by graduate studies at Harvard, Hall first distinguished himself as a multi-national World War I aviator, earning the Croix de Guerre, Médaille Militaire, Légion d’Honneur and the American Distinguished Service Cross. After the war he settled in Tahiti, where, together with Charles Nordhoff, he produced a string of ad… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources