A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President--1960 helped to alter the style and character of presidential campaigns as well as...

T. H. White is best known for his transformations of stories of the past. His four-volume masterpiece, The Once and Future King (1958), gives new life to the works of Sir Thomas Malory, and White also retells, or provides sequels for, stories told by suc...

Like British scholars C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Terence Hanbury White turned his concern for the events leading to World War II into the unexpected--a highly original children's book, The Sword in the Stone (1938). Unlike them White wrote his fir...

A group of prominent art critics at the Paris Salon of 1873 passed slowly before a large portrait of a beautiful young woman seated on a dark red sofa. The title of the portrait was Le Repos, or Repose. Its creator was the...

Kuralt's mistress, daughters fight for Montana land By BOB ANEZ Associated Press Friday, February 18, 2000 Virginia City, Mont. -- The secret life of the late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt began unfolding in court Thursday as his mistress of 29...