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Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel,Promise of Love. Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, includingThe King Must Die, The Last of the Wine, andThe Persian Boy. She died in Cape Town in 1983.Renault, Mary is the author of 'Charioteer A Novel' with ISBN 9780375714184 and ISBN 0375714189.
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