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Mary Renault: A Biography

The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa, where she and her companion, Julie Mullard, remained. "A superb biography of an exceptional novelist" (New Yorker). Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Index; photographs.

Subject
biographyhistory
Genre
LGBT
Setting
20th centurybritishsouth africa
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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