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Jack Whyte

Jack Whyte (March 15, 1940 – February 22, 2021) was a Scottish-Canadian novelist of historical fiction. Born and raised in Scotland, he moved to Canada in 1967. He resided in Kelowna, British Columbia.

For other people with similar names, see Jack White (disambiguation) and John Whyte.

Jack Whyte

March 15, 1940

Scotland

(aged 80)

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
  • Novelist
  • musician
  • actor
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Early life[edit]

Whyte was born in Scotland on March 15, 1940. He resided there until relocating to Canada in 1967.[1] He was employed at a local school for one year, where he taught English. He subsequently worked as an author, musician, and actor.[2] He and his wife, Beverley,[2] initially lived in Alberta before settling in Kelowna in 1996.[3]

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Writings[edit]

Whyte's major work was a series of historical novels retelling the story of King Arthur against the backdrop of Roman Britain. This version of the popular legend eschews the use of magic to explain Arthur's ascent to power and instead relies on the historical condition (with some artistic licence) 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. Whyte incorporates traditional Arthurian names, places and events (albeit in Gaelic or Latin form) as well as the names of various historical figures that have been suggested as being the possible basis for the original King Arthur legend. The tacit implication is that Whyte's version of history is the true story that has become distorted over time to become the legend and stories of magic that we know today. The series has been published in different locations under three different titles. In Canada it was titled A Dream of Eagles, while in the United States it was retitled The Camulod Chronicles.[4] When it was eventually republished in Great Britain with a different reading order, it became Legends of Camelot.[5]


Whyte served as the official bard of The Calgary Highlanders and performed several tracks of poetry and song on the 1990 recording by the Regimental Pipes and Drums of The Calgary Highlanders entitled Eighty Years of Glory: The Regimental Pipes, Drums and Bard of The Calgary Highlanders.[6]

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ISBN 9780735233140 (published in Great Britain as War of the Celts)[7]

The Skystone

ISBN 9780735237391 (published in Great Britain as The Round Table)[8]

The Singing Sword

ISBN 9780735237407 (published in Great Britain as Merlyn)[9]

The Eagles' Brood

ISBN 9780735237414 (published in Great Britain as Excalibur)[10]

The Saxon Shore

The Sorcerer Part 1: ISBN 9780735237421 (published in Great Britain as The Boy King)[11]

The Fort at River's Bend

The Sorcerer Part 2: ISBN 9780735237278 (published in Great Britain as The Sorcerer)[12]

Metamorphosis

Uther  9780143197706 (published in Great Britain as Pendragon)[13]

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Knights of the Black and White (released August 1, 2006, in Canada)  9780143183686

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Standard of Honor (released August 28, 2007, in Canada)  9780143017387

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Order in Chaos (released in August 2009)  9780143183709

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The Forest Laird (2010)  9780143169093 (published as Rebel in the UK)[20]

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The Renegade (2012)  9780143186526 (published as Robert the Bruce in the United States in 2013)[21](published as Resistance in the UK)[22]

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The Guardian (2014)  9780143169130

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"Power Play" in , issue 8 (Winter 2005–2006), an exploration of the nature of power, set in Roman Jerusalem.[23] ISSN 1548-0593

Paradox Magazine

Though primarily a novelist, Whyte has also written and published at least one short story:

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Later life[edit]

Although Whyte received letters from readers around the world, he lived in obscurity in Kelowna.[3] He died on the night of February 22, 2021, at Kelowna Hospice House. He was 80, and suffered from cancer prior to his death.[2][24]

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in Okanagan Life Magazine (includes a profile of Whyte)

A Way with Words

for Jack Whyte. Includes biography, bibliography, book excerpts, radio interview transcripts, and an active fan forum.

Official website

at the Wayback Machine (archived January 8, 2006). Includes questions by readers and Whyte's answers to those questions, as well as general observations by Whyte.

Jack Whyte's now defunct blog at the penguin.ca website

Feature article about Jack Whyte published in The Globe and Mail, Sept 2, 2009

Jack Whyte: one pen, one sword, one million sold

Archived 2011-02-09 at the Wayback Machine

Jack Whyte at Fantasy Literature

at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Jack Whyte