T. H. White
Sign in to saveAlso known as T.H. White, Terence Hanbury White, James Aston
English author (1906–1964)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1906
- Died
- 1964
- Works
- 65
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
- The queen of air and darkness
- Burke's steerage
- Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
- Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1906-05-29
- Active to
- 1964-01-17
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,894
- Total plays
- 17,842
Tags
Terence Hanbury White, known as Tim, was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King. There is also a country musician of the same name. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/T.H.+White">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,810x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity
· 1980 · cited 18,368x
- Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators
· 1989 · cited 18,293x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.”
- “The once and future king.”
- “God is love, the parson whined.Yes, and is he also blind?”
- “God is love, the bishops tell.Yes, I know, But love is hell.”
- “Helen whose face was fatal must have weptMany salt tears to keep her eyes so brightMany long nights alone: and every nightMen died, she cried, and happy Paris keptSweet Helen.”
- “Be kind, Helen, I am so tired of thinking;There are so many difficult corridors of thought,With equal iron banisters leading back again:So many stone stairs, Helen, up which I soughtTo rediscover the windy sky, and stand, blinking,In the lost sunlight: as bright as pain,Helen. I would give almost anything nowEven for pain.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Terence Hanbury White , ( 1906-05-29 ) 29 May 1906, Bombay , British India
- Died
- 17 January 1964 (1964-01-17) (aged 57), Piraeus , Athens, Greece
- Nickname
- Tim
- Occupation
- Writer
- Nationality
- English
- Education
- Cheltenham College
- Alma mater
- Queens' College, Cambridge
- Genre
- Fantasy
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to T. H. White, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English writer. He is best known for his Arthurian novels, which were published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King. One of his best known is the first of the series, The Sword in the Stone, which was published as a stand-alone book in 1938.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “T. H. White” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.