Editing C. S. Forester (section)

== Personal life ==
Forester married Kathleen Belcher in 1926. They had two sons, John, born in 1929, and George, born in 1933. The couple divorced in 1945. Kathleen Belcher's great{{nbhyph}}uncle was Capt. [[Edward Belcher]], RN, who achieved renown as a hydrographer and explorer. After his retirement, Belcher devoted much of his time to writing. After penning biographical material, he turned his hand to naval fiction, inventing a character called ''Horatio Howard Brenton'', and attributing great feats and adventures to him. It is possible that Forester found some inspiration in these stories for his own ''Horatio Hornblower''.

In 1947 he married Dorothy Foster. 

Forester died in [[Fullerton, California]] on 2 April 1966.

[[John Forester (cyclist)|John Forester]] wrote a two-volume biography of his father, including many elements of Forester's life which became clear to his son only after his father's death.<ref name=CSForester1e>{{cite book|last1=Forester|first1=John|title=Novelist & Storyteller: The Life of C.&nbsp;S. Forester|date=2000|publisher=John Forester|location=Lemon Grove, CA|isbn=978-0-940558-04-5|edition=first|type=2 volumes}}</ref><ref name=CSForester2e>{{cite book |last1=Forester |first1=John |title=Novelist & Storyteller: The Life of C.&nbsp;S. Forester |date=2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L9hyAgAAQBAJ |publisher=eNet Press |location=Lake Oswego, OR |edition=second |access-date=23 July 2014 |isbn=978-1-61886-004-0}}. [http://www.enetpress.com/johnforester/jf_book_STLoCSF_excerpt.html Publisher's excerpt]</ref>