T. H. White is the author of the classic Arthurian fantasy The Once and Future King, among other works.
“A fierce and damaged man, T. H. White wrote about fierce and
damaged people—and children, and animals—with a brilliant, painful
innocence that has no equal in literature. He is so good at hurt
and shame—how did he also manage to be so funny? I have laughed at
his great Arthurian novel and cried over it and loved it all my
life.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
“Certain books offer pleasures so rich and enduring, they become
part of what defines us. The Once and Future King is like that for
me. It manages—by some miracle—to be about its own time, and a
distant, legendary time, and about today. It mingles wisdom,
wonderful, laugh-out-loud humor and deep sorrow—while telling one
of the great tales of the Western world. I envy the reader coming
to it for the first time.”—Guy Gavriel Kay
“White took hold of the ultimate English epic and recast it in
modern literary language, sacrificing none of its grandeur or its
strangeness in the process, and adding in all the humor and passion
that we expect from a novel. What was once as stiff and
two-dimensional as a medieval tapestry becomes rich and real and
devastatingly sad.”—Lev Grossman
“Touching, profound, funny and tragic.”—Los Angeles Times
“Richly imagined and unfailingly eloquent and entertaining, its
appeal is timeless and universal. If a reader reads only one
Arthurian tale, let this be it.”—Booklist
“The Once and Future King is full of insights, scenes and
flourishes that are really quite astonishing.”—The Guardian (U.K.)
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