Terence Hanbury "Tim" White, more commonly known as T. H. White (1906-1964) was born in Bombay, India and educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge. White taught for some years until he became a full-time writer. Along with The Goshawk, White was the author of 26 published works, including his famed sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, as well as his classic book The Sword in the Stone.