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ENTRY: White. T.H.
Terence Hanbury White (b. May 29, 1906 – d. January 17, 1964)
was an English fantasy writer.
After graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in
English, he spent some time teaching at Stowe, before becoming a full-time
writer. He was fascinated by hunting, flying, hawking, fishing and the qualities of boyhood.
He was an intensely-involved naturalist.
White is most famous for writing The Once and Future King, a sequence
of fantasy novels (see below) that retell Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur,
reinterpreting the youth and legend of King Arthur.
White wrote many other books, some under a pseudonym. Other works include The Goshawk,
an account of White's attempt to train a hawk in the traditional
art of falconry; The Godstone and the Blackymor, a travel book set
in Ireland.
He died aboard ship in Piraeus (Athens, Greece) while returning home to England.
Works:
The Sword in the Stone (1938) The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939) The Ill-Made Knight (1940) The Candle in the Wind (1958) The Book of Merlyn (1977) Further reading: Sylvia Townsend Warner, T.H. White (biography)
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