Mary Renault (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Mary Renault (rehn-OHLT) is the pseudonym used by a British novelist who acquired popularity in the United States through her skillful and artistic reconstruction of Hellenic civilization and her biography of Alexander the Great. Born Mary Challans on September 4, 1905, in London, England, where her father was a doctor, Mary Renault was the older of two daughters. Her earliest memory of London was of a Zeppelin raid during World War I, which she described in later life as a “splendid fireworks display.”
Renault attended Clifton High School, a boarding school near Bristol,...
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