Thomas Malory

c. 1415–c. 1471 · England

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Biography

English writer best known for Le Morte d'Arthur, the definitive English-language retelling of the Arthurian legends. He likely wrote it while imprisoned, drawing on earlier French and English sources. His work fixed the Arthurian canon — Lancelot, Guinevere, the Round Table, the quest for the Holy Grail — in the English-speaking imagination.

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