Jon Ewbank Manchip White

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Jon Ewbank Manchip White was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of shipping company owner Gwilym Manchip White. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in England to reduce his risk of catching tuberculosis from his father, who was ill with the disease. He earned a scholarship to Cambridge University in 1941, where he studied until World War II began and he enrolled in the Royal Navy. After initially ferrying men and supplies across the English Channel, he joined the Welsh Guard, where he served until the end of the war. After the war, he returned to Cambridge, and in 1950 he graduated with honors in English, prehistoric archaeology, and oriental languages, receiving a diploma in anthropology. He became a story editor for the BBC Television Service, where he read scripts and worked on episodes of his own. After working briefly for the British Foreign Service, he went back to writing for television and film. By 1962, he was back to writing for television. He also published novels and non-fiction. In 1967 he left his position at the BBC to become writer-in-residence at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he founded the school's creative writing department and eventually became a full professor. Ten years later he relocated to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he became the Lindsey Young Professor of English and founded another creative writing department. In 2005, the Knoxville Writers' Guild recognized White with a Career Achievement Award.

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Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
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Rawlins White
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Solo Goya
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Everyday Life of the North American Indian
Representative edition published 2003
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Cortes and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire
Representative edition published 1996
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Whistling Past the Churchyard
Representative edition published 1992
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The Journeying Boy
Representative edition published 1991
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A World Elsewhere
Representative edition published 1989
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What to Do When the Russians Come
Representative edition published 1984
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Death by Dreaming
Representative edition published 1981
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The Moscow Papers
Representative edition published 1978
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The Garden Game
Representative edition published 1975
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The Mountain Lion
Representative edition published 1971
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The Game of Troy
Representative edition published 1971
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Cortés and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire
Representative edition published 1971
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Ancient Egypt
Representative edition published 1970
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The Land God Made in Anger
Representative edition published 1969
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Diego Velazquez
Representative edition published 1969
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Nightclimber
Representative edition published 1968
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Everyday life in ancient Egypt (A Capricorn giant)
Representative edition published 1967
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Maurice de Saxe, mareÌchal de France, 1696-1750
Representative edition published 1967
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everyday life in ancient egypt
Representative edition published 1963
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MARSHAL OF FRANCE
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Mask of Dust
Representative edition published 1953
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