Description
Author: Mary Renault
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/12/1988
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780394751054
ISBN10: 0394751051
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Mary Renault wrote more than a dozen novels; has had her work adapted for radio, stage, and screeen; and has been the subject of documentaries and biographies. She is as widely known for her forthright treatment of gay relationships as well as her historical restructions of ancient Greece. She was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained as a nurse, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. After World War II, she and Mullard settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her historical novels, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine, and The Persian Boy. The biography The Nature of Alexander is one of her only nonfiction books. She died in Cape Town in 1983.