Jack Whyte
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Jack Whyte (Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 1939) is an author and writer born and raised in Scotland, but living in Canada since 1967.
Whyte's major work to date is the A Dream of Eagles series (as it is titled in Canada, but known as The Camulod Chronicles in the United States and elsewhere). This series of historical novels presents the tale of King Arthur set against the backdrop of Roman Britain. This retelling of the popular legend eschews the use of magic (as in T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone) to explain Arthur’s ascent to power and instead relies on the historical condition (with some artistic license) of post-Roman Britain to support the theory that Arthur was meant to counter the anarchy left by the Roman departure from Britain in 410 AD and the subsequent colonization and invasion of Britain by various peoples from Northwestern Europe, including the Saxons, Jutes, Franks, and Angles).
Jack Whyte served as the official bard of The Calgary Highlanders and performed several tracks of poetry and song on the 1990 album Eighty Years of Glory: The Regimental Pipes, Drums and Bard of The Calgary Highlanders.[1]
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[edit] Camulod Chronicles
[edit] A Dream of Eagles (Camulod Chronicles)
- The Skystone
- The Singing Sword
- The Eagles' Brood
- The Saxon Shore
- The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend
- The Sorcerer Part 2: Metamorphosis
The two volumes The Sorcerer: The Fort at River’s Bend and The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis were written as a single volume entitled The Sorcerer but were split for publication.
[edit] Golden Eagle (companion mini-series)
- Clothar the Frank (titled The Lance Thrower outside of Canada)
- The Eagle (released in Canada in 2005, release pending in the United States)
[edit] Other
- Uther, stand alone novel based on the events occurring in The Eagles' Brood
Whyte has no known plans to expand on his Arthurian works, but he is currently working on several new books. These books, like their predecessors, are historical fiction, but are set in and around the Crusades, focusing on the rise and fall of the Knights Templar.
[edit] The Templar Trilogy
- Knights of the Black and White (Released August 1, 2006 in Canada)
- Soldiers of Christ (Release date unknown)
- Fall of Baphomet (Release date unknown)
[edit] External links
- Official website for Jack Whyte. Includes biography, bibliography, book excerpts, radio interview transcripts, and an active fan forum.
- Archived scan from web.archive.org for Jack Whyte's now defunct blog at the penguin.ca website. Includes questions by readers and Jack Whyte's answers to those questions, as well as general observations by Jack Whyte.
