born May 29, 1906, Bombay, India
died Jan. 17, 1964, Piraeus, Greece
English novelist, social historian, and satirist.
Educated at Cambridge University, White was working as a teacher when he attained his first critical success with the autobiographical England Have My Bones (1936). He later devoted himself to writing, studying subjects such as Arthurian legend while living a largely reclusive life. He is best known for his adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory 's Le Morte Darthur in the tetralogy The Once and Future King (1958), comprising The Sword in the Stone (1938), The Queen of Air and Darkness (originally The Witch in the Wood , 1939), The Ill-Made Knight (1940), and The Candle in the Wind (1958).