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Francis KingThis page is not about Francis X. King, the writer on occult topics Francis Henry King (born 1923) is a British novelist and short story writer, and a poet. He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland and brought up in India. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and left Oxford to work on the land. After completing his degree in 1949 he worked for the British Council; he was posted around Europe, and then in Kyoto. He resigned to write full time in 1964. He came out as a homosexual in the 1970s; in Yesterday Came Suddenly (1993), after his longterm partner had died from AIDS in 1988, he described the relationship. Works - To the Dark Tower (1946) novel
- Never Again (1948) novel
- Air That Kills (1949) novel
- The Dividing Stream (1951) novel, 1952 Somerset Maugham Award
- Rod of Incantation (1952) poems
- The Dark Glasses (1954) novel
- The Firewalkers: a Memoir (1956) as Frank Caudwell
- The Man on the Rock (1957) novel
- The Custom House (1961) novel
- The Last Pleasure Gardens (1965)
- The Waves Behind the Boat (1967) novel
- Robert de Montesquiou (by Philippe Julian) (1967) translator with John Haylock
- The Brighton Belle and other stories (1968)
- The Domestic Animal (1970) novel
- Flights (1973)
- A Game of Patience (1974)
- The Needle (1975)
- Voices in an Empty Room (1984)
- Visiting Cards (1990)
- Punishments (1989)
- The Ant Colony (1992)
- Yesterday Came Suddenly (1993) autobiography
- The Nick of Time (2002) ISBN 1900850788
Reference King, Francis Henry King, Francis Henry King, Francis Henry King, Francis Henry
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