WHITE, T. H.

Penguin Books 1962. 234p.Sider. Paperback. Signs of use. Terence Hanbury ""Tim"" White (29 May 1906 - 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958. One of his most memorable is the first of the series, The Sword in the Stone, published as a stand-alone book in 1938. In the early 1950s, White published two non-fiction books. The Age of Scandal (1950) is a collection of essays about 18th-century England. The Goshawk (1951) is an account of White's attempt to train a northern goshawk using traditional, rather than modern, falconry techniques. Written at his cottage in the mid-1930s, it was published only after its chance discovery by and at the insistence of White's agent, David Garnett. In 1954 White translated and edited The Book of Beasts, an English translation of a medieval bestiary, originally written in Latin.