"wonderful correspondence" with White, and later recalled that White gave him "some very good advice on how to write". J. K. Rowling has said that White's writing strongly influenced the Harry Potter books; several critics have compared Rowling's character Albus Dumbledore to White's absent-minded Merlyn, and Rowling herself has described White's Wart as "Harry's spiritual ancestor." Author Neil Gaiman was asked about the similarities between Harry Potter and Gaiman's character Timothy Hunter, and he stated that he did not think Rowling had based her character on Hunter. "I said to [the reporter] that I thought we were both just stealing from T. H. White: very straightforward." Gregory Maguire was influenced by "White's ability to be intellectually broadminded, to be comic, to be poetic, and to be fantastic" in the writing of his 1995 novel Wicked, and crime fiction writer Ed McBain also cited White as an influence. White features extensively in Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. One of the components of the book is a biographical account of White and also The Goshawk, an account of his own failed attempt to train a hawk. Selective bibliography Loved Helen (1929) The Green Bay Tree (1929) Dead Mr Nixon (1931) (with R. McNair Scott) First Lesson (1932) (as James Aston) They Winter Abroad (1932) (as James Aston) Darkness at Pemberley (1932) Farewell Victoria (1933) Earth Stopped (1934) Gone to Ground (1935) England Have My Bones (1936) Burke's Steerage (1938) The Once and Future King The Sword in the Stone (UK 1938, revised U.S. ed. 1939) The Queen of Air and Darkness (original version 1939, as The Witch in the Wood) The Ill-Made Knight (1940) The Candle in the Wind (1958) Mistress Masham's Repose (1946) The Elephant and the Kangaroo (1947) The Age of Scandal (1950) The Goshawk (1951) The Scandalmonger (1952) The Book of Beasts (translator, 1954) The Master: An Adventure Story (1957) The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959) America at Last (1965) The Book of Merlyn (1977) A Joy Proposed (1980) The Maharajah and Other Stories (selections from Earth Stopped (1934) and Gone to Ground (1935), ed. Kurth Sprague) (1981) Letters to a Friend: The Correspondence Between T. H. White and L. J. Potts (1984) Citations General and cited sources Sylvia Townsend Warner, T. H. White: A Biography (Viking 1967) External links T. H. White Collection at the Harry Ransom Center