Charles Bernard Nordhoff was an English-born American novelist and traveler, best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels co-written with James Norman Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934), and Pitcairn's Island (1934).

During World War I, Nordhoff served as a driver in the Ambulance Corps and as an aviator in both the French Air Force's Lafayette Flying Corps and the United States Army Air Service, where he reached the rank of lieutenant.

After the war, he spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Hall wrote a number of successful adventure books, many of which were adapted for film.