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Jun 1, 2003 · Rusty Young (born 1975) is the Australian-born author of the international bestseller Marching Powder, the true story of an English drug smuggler in Bolivia’s notorious San Pedro Prison and the bestselling novel, Colombiano, a fact-meets-fiction revenge thriller about a Colombian boy who sets out to avenge his father’s death.
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- The War of The Roses & Malory
- Malory The Criminal
- Malory The Artist
- Le Morte D'arthur
- Conclusion
The War of the Roses was a civil conflict between the House of York (symbolized by a white rose) and the House of Lancaster (a red rose) for the throne of England. Neither side referred to the conflict by this name, which only came into vogue some centuries later, but both sides were identified by the heraldic badges they wore which featured a diff...
All of this becomes important in understanding the only information on Malory's life outside of his book: his criminal record and time spent in prison. It seems more than a little incongruous that an author who wrote so beautifully of honor, law, justice, and right should have lived a life in which he was charged with robbery, blackmail, burglary, ...
C. 1468 CE, after Malory had been in and out of prison for the better part of the last decade, he sided with Richard Neville who had deserted the House of York for the Lancasters. Neville hatched a plot to overthrow the Yorkist king Edward IV, involving Malory, and when this was discovered, Malory was arrested and sent to Newgate Prison, London. Th...
Le Morte D'Arthur tells the story of the rise and fall of King Arthur, the adventures of his noble knights in their quest for the Holy Grail, and the love affair between Arthur's queen Guinevere and his best friend and champion Lancelot du Lac. In the present day, the work is divided into 21 chapters which the original publisher, William Caxton, ca...
Shortly after Malory completed the manuscript he died, and it is unclear how it made its way to the publisher William Caxton. Caxton is responsible for publishing some of the greatest works in the English language, including the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, and always clearly introduced the work and author in a prologue. When he published Le Morte D...
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Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; [1] February 9, 1737 [ O.S. January 29, 1736] [Note 1] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. [2] [3] He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most ...
- June 8, 1809 (aged 72), Greenwich Village, New York City, U.S.
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Mar 25, 2024 · In the colophon to Le Morte Darthur the author, calling himself “Syr Thomas Maleore knyght,” says that he finished the work in the ninth year of the reign of Edward IV (i.e., March 4, 1469–March 3, 1470) and adds a prayer for “good delyueraunce” from prison. The only known knight at this time with a name like Maleore was Thomas Malory ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thomas Malory. Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources. The most popular version of Le Morte d'Arthur was published by the famed London printer William Caxton in 1485.
- c. 1393 or 1425, England
- Knight, writer
- c. 1470 or later
Marching Powder is a 2002 non-fiction book written by Australian author Rusty Young. It is based on the true story of a British-Tanzanian man, Thomas McFadden, who was apprehended in 1996 at La Paz airport in Bolivia with five kilos of cocaine in his suitcase and incarcerated in San Pedro prison. [1] The book, described as "a gripping expose of ...
Nov 9, 2009 · Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images. Thomas Paine was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international ...
