Sir Thomas Malory (Dictionary of World Biography: The Renaissance)
Early Life
The problem in writing the biography of the most famous author of Arthurian stories is that it is not known with any certainty who he was. At one time or another, scholars have championed no fewer than nine Thomas Malorys, but perhaps only three of those men deserve serious attention.
The primary conditions for establishing the author’s identity come from the
text of Le Morte d’Arthur itself. Modern scholars have available to them
the first printed edition, produced in 1485 by [The entire page is 2607 words long]
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