White went to Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, a public school, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was tutored by the scholar and occasional author L. Terence White had a discordant childhood, with an alcoholic father and an emotionally frigid mother, and his parents separated when Terence was fourteen. White was born in Bombay, British India to English parents, Garrick Hansbury White, an Indian police superintendent, and Constance White. Terence Hanbury White was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958. It is the fantasy masterpiece by which all others are judged. It is the book of all things lost and wonderful and sad. It is the magical epic of King Arthur and his shining Camelot of Merlin and Owl and Guinevere of beasts who talk and men who fly, of wizardry and war. The whole world knows and loves this book.
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