Mary Renault: A BiographyIn her novels The Last of the Wine, The Bull from the Sea and The Persian Boy, Mary Renault wrote so frankly about homosexuality that some readers thought she must be a man. In fact Renault was the pseudonym for Mary Challans, a remarkable and private woman. Born in London, she spent most of her life in South Africa. |
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