T H White born 29 May 1906 (d. 1964)
Terence Hanbury White was an English writer born in Bombay (Mumbai), India. After graduating from Cambridge with a first-class degree in English, he taught for a few years at Stowe School before becoming a full-time writer.
He is most famous for writing The Once and Future King, a sequence of novels based on Sir Thomas Malory's 15th-Century romance Le Morte D'Arthur reinterpreting the legend of King Arthur. The Broadway musical Camelot and the Disney film The Sword in the Stone are both based on The Once and Future King. We probably owe much of our 'historical' knowledge of King Arthur to White's work.
He was also a closeted homosexual, turning first to psychotherapy and, when it failed, alcohol as a way out of what he perceived as a problem.
A rather private and solitary man, he eventually retired to the island of Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, but died from heart failure on a ship in Piraeus, Greece, while returning from a lecture tour in America.
White's work was an influence on science-fiction writer Michael Moorcock, and J K Rowling has acknowledged the influence of White's work on the Harry Potter novels.
Popular Themes and Searches
Academics
Activists
Actors
Architects
Aristocrats
Artists
Ballet
Beat Generation
Bisexuals
Broadcasters
Broadway
Businessmen
Choreographers
Classical Music
Comedians
Composers
Critics
Dancers
Death by suicide
Death from HIV/Aids
DJs
Drag
Fashion Designers
Female Impersonators
Film
Film Directors
Hollywood
Illustrators
Journalists
Leftfield/Avant-Garde
Military Men
Musical Theatre
Musicians
Novelists
Olympic Medalists
Oscar Wilde
Painters
Photographers
Playwrights
Poets
Politicians
Popular Music
Porn Stars
Radio
Screenwriters
Singers
Songwriters
Sportsmen
Television
Theatre
Theatre Directors
Tony Award winners
Victorians
World War 2
World War I
Writers
January
- 31 Jan 1942 - Derek Jarman
- 31 Jan 1962 - Patrick Gale
- 30 Jan 1925 - Jack Spicer
- 30 Jan 1855 - Howard Overing Sturgis
- 29 Jan 1982 - Adam Lambert
- 28 Jan 1960 - Greg Louganis
- 26 Jan 1931 - Alfred Lynch
- 25 Jan 1962 - Aaron Fricke
- 24 Jan 1944 - Klaus Nomi
- 23 Jan 1898 - Randolph Scott
- 23 Jan 1906 - Lester Horton
- 23 Jan 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein
- 22 Jan 1893 - Conrad Veidt
- 21 Jan 1933 - Mel Cheren
- 21 Jan 1926 - Kennith H Burns
- 20 Jan 1979 - Will Young
- 19 Jan 1941 - Stan Persky
- 17 Jan 1886 - Ronald Firbank
- 17 Jan 1927 - Thomas Anthony Dooley
- 17 Jan 1837 - Oscar Browning
- 17 Jan 1897 - Nils Asther
- 16 Jan 1921 - Francesco Scavullo
- 15 Jan 1893 - Ivor Novello
- 14 Jan 1926 - Tom Tryon
- 14 Jan 1925 - Yukio Mishima
- 14 Jan 1904 - Cecil Beaton
- 14 Jan 1923 - Gerald Arpino
- 13 Jan 1904 - Oliver Messel
- 13 Jan 1960 - Matthew Bourne
- 12 Jan 1856 - John Singer Sargent
- 12 Jan 1941 - Long John Baldry
- 11 Jan 1953 - John Sessions
- 11 Jan 1962 - Chris Bryant
- 10 Jan 1948 - Craig Russell
- 10 Jan 1927 - Johnnie Ray
- 10 Jan 1939 - Sal Mineo
- 10 Jan 1953 - Dennis Cooper
- 9 Jan 1919 - William Meredith
- 9 Jan 1900 - Richard Halliburton
- 9 Jan 1915 - Herbert Huncke
- 8 Jan 1942 - George Passmore
- 8 Jan 1941 - Graham Chapman
- 8 Jan 1926 - Kerwin Mathews
- 8 Jan 1910 - Richard Cromwell
- 7 Jan 1880 - Bert Savoy
- 7 Jan 1899 - Francis Poulenc
- 7 Jan 1921 - Chester Kallman
- 7 Jan 1919 - Robert Duncan
- 6 Jan 1934 - John Wieners
- 6 Jan 1976 - Danny Pintauro
- 5 Jan 1773 - Richard Heber
- 5 Jan 1931 - Alvin Ailey
- 4 Jan 1960 - Michael Stipe
- 4 Jan 1877 - Marsden Hartley
- 4 Jan 1919 - Joel Dorius
- 3 Jan 1945 - David Starkey
- 3 Jan 1904 - Boris Kochno
- 2 Jan 1905 - Sir Michael Tippett
- 2 Jan 1961 - Todd Haynes
- 2 Jan 1900 - William Haines
- 1 Jan 1968 - Joey Stefano
- 1 Jan 1933 - Joe Orton
- 1 Jan 1879 - E M Forster
- 1 Jan 1927 - Maurice Béjart
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment