{"id":2886,"date":"2015-04-14T20:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2015-04-14T20:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:31:47","slug":"white-t-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/white-t-h\/","title":{"rendered":"White, T.H."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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T.H. White was born in Bombay, India, on May 29, 1906, where his father was a civil servant. White was sent to England for schooling, attending Cheltenham, then Cambridge. He was the English master at Stowe School from 1930-1936, after which he devoted his time to writing.<\/p>\n

White’s first critical success was England Have My Bones<\/i> (1936), an autobiographical account of his life in the country. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, and was by nature reclusive, often spending long periods isolated from others.<\/p>\n

Although White wrote books about hunting and other sports, a detective novel, adventure and fantasy novels, and many short stories and poems, he is best known for his quartet of books on the Arthurian legend: The Sword in the Stone <\/i>(1939), The Witch in the Wood<\/i> (1939), The Ill-Made Knight<\/i> (1940), and The Candle in the Wind<\/i> (1958). The books were revised and published in one lengthy volume in 1958, The Once and Future King<\/i>. That volume served as the basis for the musical, “Camelot.”<\/p>\n

White died in January 1964, aboard a ship in Athens, Greece. He was returning from an American lecture tour. America At Last<\/i> (1965), was his record of that tour.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Steve Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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