Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory, (d. c. 1471). English poet, author of the Morte d’Arthur, the first prose version of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory’s identity is- uncertain, but he is thought to have been born in Warwickshire and to have served at Calais before becoming an MP in 1442. He was arrested for theft and rape in 1451 and subsequently spent several periods in jail, the last for his support of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses. Morte d’Arthur, written in jail, was not printed until 1485.
