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This one is easy, so apart from her name we would want to know the names of her gay-connected novels, with a note about your personal opinion of each one. This will help people who have not read them yet to get to know them.
Here she is:
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The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Easy, HAHA. At first i thought it might be Margaret Mead, but no it's not her.
If you'd like to find some very enlighting info on gender rolls in "primitive" soceities, I reccomend Ms Mead's books. She's the bomb hehe.
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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I never knew she was gay. I just thought she was a rather compelling author. I also heard she was a pupil of Tolkien
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Not sure what she considered herself to be sexualy. For me she just opened the door to seeing ourselves as simply humans with all the alternatives that implies.
Man, what a revelation that was to lift the old cultural blinders and find that my sexualy alternative desires were not at all deviant.
I just ask my roommate, though he wasn't at Columbia Univ.during her tenure, he too seems to remember, as do I that in her later life she did tend toward the alternative though nieither of us remember her saying so out right.
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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timmy
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For me they were books I could read and tall my mother they were historical novels 
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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But her writing took a very different turn.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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There was a recent movie about the period she wrt eher novels about. The ancient world, where kings ruled and conquered and battled. And one that she wrote about, albeit not in the title of the book, was a great and youthful general who had what must have been the ugliest horse ever.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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And which is your favourite?
I think we may all know her, but not her picture. And pciture research is very hard to do.
Wikipedia has a good deal to say about her and is worth a read.
The answer is Mary Renault
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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So, now, what do we know about her?
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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A rather comprehensive article about Mary Renault can be found here:
http://www.outuk.com/index.html?http://www.outuk.com/content/features/alexander/
Her most famous "gay" books are the Alexander trilogy (Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, Funeral Games). "The Charioteer" is a magnificent novel which I recommend to anyone who has not read it. (I have read it three times!) "The Last of the Wine" is also a very good novel about life in Athens in the time of Socrates - it's about a young Athenian, Alexis, and his b/f, Lysis. (I have read it twice!)
Enjoy.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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