May 29,1906

Terence Hanbury White, or as he is mainly known, T. H. White, (May 29, 1906, to January 17, 1964), was, according to his Britannica article, 'English novelist, social historian, and satirist who was best known for his brilliant adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th-century romance, Morte Darthur, into a quartet of novels called The Once and Future King.

'White was educated at Cheltenham College and at Cambridge. He taught at Stowe School (1930–36), and while there he attained his first real critical success with an autobiographical volume, England Have My Bones (1936). He afterward devoted himself exclusively to writing and to studying such recondite subjects as the Arthurian legends, which were to provide the material for his books. White was by nature a recluse, for long periods isolating himself from human society and spending his time hunting, fishing, and looking after his strange collection of pets.

The Once and Future King (1958) ...[is comprised of] The Sword in the Stone (1939), The Queen of Air and Darkness—first published as The Witch in the Wood (1940)—The Ill-Made Knight (1941), and The Candle in the Wind. The Once and Future King was adapted in 1960 into a highly successful musical play, Camelot; [and] a motion picture... White’s other works include The Goshawk (1951), a study of falconry, and two works of social history, The Age of Scandal (1950) and The Scandalmonger (1951)...'

White also produced the first translation of a medieval bestiary, into English, in 1954. The title is
The Bestiary: the Book of Beasts: being a translation from a Latin bestiary of the twelfth century,
and the title page includes White's chosen tag: "Made and Edited by T. H. White."

The book is a joy, and one thing I learned, is that the Bestiary, as a type of book just rolled along in history and is not the kind of book you assign an author to.  This picture is from The Bestiary





Here is a copy of this book you can look at.  The 1960 edition, however, has a superior biographical sketch of White.