T. H. White

Terence Hanbury White, known as Tim, was born in 1906 in Bombay, India, where his father was a police superintendent. His family moved to England in 1911; his childhood was unhappy. He studied at Cheltenham College and at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he wrote a thesis on Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and graduated with first-class honours in English in 1928. He taught at Stowe School for four years, then left to live in a cottage nearby, where he wrote and spent his time on falconry, hunting and fishing. The Sword in the Stone (1938) tells of the boyhood of King Arthur, called the Wart, and his education by the wizard Merlyn. In 1939 White moved to Ireland, where he spent the Second World War. He wrote more books about Arthur, later gathered as The Once and Future King (1958). He also wrote The Goshawk, about training a hawk, and the children's book Mistress Masham's Repose. From 1946 he lived on Alderney, in the Channel Islands. His Arthur books inspired the musical Camelot and a Disney film. He died in 1964.

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