

Potts who White referred to as "the greatest literary influence on my life." After Cambridge, he taught at Stowe school, before moving into a workman's cottage where he engaged in falconry, hunting, and fishing and wrote a series of novels about disasters and fantasy worlds.

While at Cambridge, he was tutored by the scholar and author L.J. White attended a boarding school in England and then Cambridge University where he wrote a thesis on Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. White was born in Bombay, India to English parents and experienced a tumultuous childhood with an alcoholic father and emotionally distant mother-his parents separated when White was fourteen.
