biography
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King, Francis (Henry)
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Adelboden, WC Switzerland. He studied at Shrewsbury and Oxford, after a childhood spent partly in India, and worked for the British Council in Finland, Greece, Egypt, and Japan (1945–64). His novels include The Dividing Stream (1951, Somerset Maugham Award), The Needle (1975), Act of Darkness (1983), Visiting Cards (1990), The Ant Colony (1991), and Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve (1996). His volumes of short stories include The Japanese Umbrella (1964) and Hard Feelings (1976), and he has also written poetry and travel books. |
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