Editing T. H. White (section)

==Personal life==
According to [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]]'s 1967 biography, White was "a homosexual and a [[sadomasochism|sado-masochist]]."<ref name="nybio"/> He came close to marrying several times but had no enduring romantic relationships. In his diaries of Zed, a young boy, he wrote: "I have fallen in love with Zed&nbsp;... the whole situation is an impossible one. All I can do is behave like a gentleman. It has been my hideous fate to be born with an infinite capacity for love and joy with no hope of using them."<ref name="nybio"/>

[[Robert Robinson (broadcaster)|Robert Robinson]] published an account of a conversation with White in which White claimed to be attracted to women. Robinson concluded that this was a cover for homosexuality. [[Julie Andrews]] wrote in her autobiography, "I believe Tim may have been an unfulfilled homosexual, and he suffered a lot because of it."<ref>Andrews, Julie. ''Home: A Memoir of My Early Years'', Hachette, 2008<!-- No page, ebook ed --></ref>

However, White's long-time friend and literary agent David Higham wrote, "Tim was no homosexual, though I think at one time he had feared he was (and in his ethos fear would have been the word)." Higham gave Sylvia Townsend Warner the address of one of White's lovers "so that she could get in touch with someone so important in Tim's story. But she never, the girl told me, took that step. So she was able to present Tim in such a light that a reviewer could call him a raging homosexual. Perhaps a heterosexual affair would have made her blush."<ref>Higham, David. ''Literary Gent'', Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., New York, 1979, page 213</ref>

[[Lin Carter]] portrays White in ''[[Imaginary Worlds – the Art of Fantasy|Imaginary Worlds]]'' as a man who felt deeply but was unable to form close human relationships because of his unfortunate childhood. "He was a man with an enormous capacity for loving. It shows in his prodigious correspondence and in his affection for dogs, and in the bewildered and inarticulate loves his characters experience in his books; but he had few close friends, and no genuine relationship with a woman."<ref>Carter, Lin. ''Imaginary Worlds: The Art of Fantasy'', Ballantine Books, 1973, page 95</ref>

White was agnostic<ref name="tele">Wilson, A. N. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080530052255/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/03/06/do0605.xml "World of Books: The Knights with Right on Their Side"], The Daily Telegraph, 3 June 2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.</ref> and a heavy drinker towards the end of his life.<ref name="timeslit"/><ref>Cantwell, Mary. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DEFD61538F933A2575AC0A964948260 "Books of the Times: Letters to a Friend"] (book review), The New York Times, 10 September 1982. Retrieved on 2008-02-13.</ref> Warner wrote of him, "Notably free from fearing God, he was basically afraid of the human race."<ref name="merlyn"/>