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The fourth and final contender for the title of authorship is the little-known Thomas Malory from Hutton Conyers, in Yorkshire.

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

Matthews ' claim was met with little enthusiasm, despite considerable linguistic evidence which demonstrates that the author spoke a regional dialect which matches with the writing of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

This Malory's not being a knight is considered a large flaw.