The English knight Thomas Malory wrote the Arthurian romance Le Morte d'Arthur in the 15th century.
Malory’s work is a prose compilation of stories about King Arthur, the Round Table, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, and the quest for the Holy Grail. It brought together material from French Arthurian romances and English traditions into one influential narrative.
The book was printed by William Caxton in 1485, shortly after Caxton established England’s first major printing press. The printed version helped make Malory’s Arthurian cycle one of the best-known medieval works in English.
Malory’s identity and biography remain debated in some details, but the author identifies himself as a knight. He should not be confused with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose earlier Latin history helped shape later Arthurian legend but was not the author of Le Morte d'Arthur.