biography
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White, T(erence) H(anbury)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–64)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Mumbai (Bombay), W India. He studied at Cambridge, and taught at Stowe School, England (1930–6), where he wrote his first success, England Have My Bones (1936). With the exception of the largely autobiographical The Goshawk (1951), his best work was in the form of legend and fantasy, especially his sequence of novels about King Arthur, The Once and Future King (1958), beginning with The Sword in the Stone (1937). His King Arthur novels were adapted for the stage as a musical, Camelot (1959), by Alan J Lerner and Frederick Loewe. |
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