num_pages: 336
description: The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa, where she and her companion, Julie Mullard, remained. "A superb biography of an exceptional novelist" (New Yorker). Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Index; photographs.
language: English
title: Mary Renault: A Biography
titlecomplete: Mary Renault: A Biography
genres: Biography, LGBT, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 129
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Mariner Books