Thomas Malory
c. 1415–1471
Biography
Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer whose life is poorly documented. In the closing lines of his book he calls himself a 'knight prisoner', and the surviving fifteenth-century records contain several men of his name, so scholars have argued about which one he was. The most favoured candidate is a Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, a soldier who was arrested and imprisoned at various times, the first of them in 1451, but the question is not settled. The Warwickshire man is recorded as dying on 14 March 1471.
His book, Le Morte d'Arthur, was compiled mainly from French sources and printed by William Caxton in 1485. Malory turned the French romances into English prose, and his book tells of King Arthur and his knights, of Lancelot and Guinevere, of the quest for the Holy Grail, and of the collapse of Arthur's kingdom. It is one of the foundations of English writing about Arthur, and later writers, Tennyson among them, drew on it.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is the book on this site credited to him. Readers who meet the stories here are reading in the tradition that his book set down in English. The sources below give the facts about his life and the scholarly debate over his identity.
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Books
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
by Thomas Malory
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a retelling of the Arthurian legends, principally Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, by Roger Lancelyn Green. It was intended for children. It was first published by Puffin Books in 1953 and has since been reprinted many times.…
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