Sir Thomas Malory
Author
(1415 - 1471)
Sir Thomas Malroy, knight, of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire wrote his version of the Arthurian romances, Le Mort d’Arthur, while in Newgate Prison.
Bibliography
The Works of Sir Thomas Malory (1947)
This first major work in modern English was printed by William Caxton in 1485, not long after its composition around 1470. Thus it was to great delight among readers that a nearly complete manuscript copy of the original work, very likely that used by Caxton for his edition, was discovered at Winchester in 1934.