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Mary Renault Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Sep 4, 1905
  • Died: Dec 13, 1983

Mary Renault, born Eileen Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.