Mary Renault

Novelist, Author

1905 – 1983

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Who was Mary Renault?

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.

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Born
Sep 4, 1905
Forest Gate
Spouses
Nationality
  • England
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Education
  • St Hugh's College, Oxford
Lived in
  • London
Died
Dec 13, 1983
Cape Town

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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