About the Author

Dr. Cecelia Linton credits her detection of a religious vocation in the author of Le Morte Darthur to the fact that she was educated by nuns--they are attuned to such things--in parish schools and then in the venerable St. Vincent's Academy in Savannah, Georgia, which has been enlightening girls since 1845. Higher education and a long career on the other side of the desk have never overshadowed that early encounter with the rigors of her formation by the teaching nuns. When she began reading P. J. C. Field's work concerning Sir Thomas Malory's identity, Linton knew before the end of Chapter 1 that this book had to be written, and so she has written it, with great joy along the way. She can be found at home, usually with some part of her numerous family, in a certain old house in Manassas, Virginia, or else in another one, even older, in Savannah.