White, T(erence) H(anbury)
- White, T(erence) H(anbury)
(29 may. 1906, Bombay, India–17 ene. 1964, Pireo, Grecia).
Novelista, historiador social y escritor satírico inglés. Educado en la Universidad de Cambridge, White trabajaba de profesor cuando obtuvo su primer éxito de crítica con la obra autobiográfica
England Have My Bones [Inglaterra, recibe mis huesos] (
1936). Más tarde se dedicó a escribir, estudiando temas como las leyendas del rey
Arturo, al tiempo que llevaba una vida fundamentalmente recluida. Es conocido sobre todo por su adaptación de
Le Morte Darthur de Sir Thomas Malory en la tetralogía
La leyenda del rey Arturo (1958), formada por
The Sword in the Stone [La espada en la piedra] (1938),
The Queen of Air and Darkness [La reina del aire y la oscuridad] (
originalmente The Witch in the Wood [La bruja en el bosque], 1939),
The Ill-Made Knight [El mal ordenado caballero] (1940) y
The Candle in the Wind [La candela en el viento] (1958).
Enciclopedia Universal.
2012.
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