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Francis King
(Francis Henry King)
(b.1923)aka Frank Cauldwell
About this author edit data Francis Henry King, CBE, was a British novelist, poet and short story writer.
He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland, brought up in India and 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 was a past winner of the W. Somerset Maugham Prize for his novel The Dividing Stream (1951) and also won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Prize. A President Emeritus of International PEN and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was appointed an Officer (OBE) of the Order of the British Empire in 1979 and a Commander of the Order (CBE) in 1985.
He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland, brought up in India and 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 was a past winner of the W. Somerset Maugham Prize for his novel The Dividing Stream (1951) and also won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Prize. A President Emeritus of International PEN and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was appointed an Officer (OBE) of the Order of the British Empire in 1979 and a Commander of the Order (CBE) in 1985.
Awards: SoA (1952) see all
Novels
To the Dark Tower (1946)
Never Again (1947)
An Air That Kills (1948)
The Dividing Stream (1951)
The Dark Glasses (1954)
The Firewalkers (1956) (as by Frank Cauldwell)
The Man On the Rock (1957)
The Widow (1957)
The Custom House (1961)
The Last of the Pleasure Gardens (1965)
Waves Behind the Boat (1967)
A Domestic Animal (1969)
Flights (1973)
Game of Patience (1974)
The Needle (1975)
Danny Hill (1977)
The Action (1978)
Act of Darkness (1983)
Voices in an Empty Room (1984)
Frozen Music (1987)
The Woman Who Was God (1988)
Punishments (1989)
Visiting Cards (1990)
The Ant Colony (1991)
The One and Only (1994)
Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve (1996)
Dead Letters (1997)
The Nick of Time (2003)
With My Little Eye (2007)
Cold Snap (2009)
Prodigies (2013)
Never Again (1947)
An Air That Kills (1948)
The Dividing Stream (1951)
The Dark Glasses (1954)
The Firewalkers (1956) (as by Frank Cauldwell)
The Man On the Rock (1957)
The Widow (1957)
The Custom House (1961)
The Last of the Pleasure Gardens (1965)
Waves Behind the Boat (1967)
A Domestic Animal (1969)
Flights (1973)
Game of Patience (1974)
The Needle (1975)
Danny Hill (1977)
The Action (1978)
Act of Darkness (1983)
Voices in an Empty Room (1984)
Frozen Music (1987)
The Woman Who Was God (1988)
Punishments (1989)
Visiting Cards (1990)
The Ant Colony (1991)
The One and Only (1994)
Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve (1996)
Dead Letters (1997)
The Nick of Time (2003)
With My Little Eye (2007)
Cold Snap (2009)
Prodigies (2013)
Collections
Rod of Incantation (poems) (1952)
So Hurt and Humiliated (1959)
The Japanese Umbrella (1964)
The Brighton Belle (1968)
Penguin Modern Stories 12 (1972) (with others)
Hard Feelings and Other Stories (1976)
Indirect Method and Other Stories (1980)
One Is a Wanderer (1985)
Secret Lives (1991) (with Patrick Gale and Tom Wakefield)
A Hand at the Shutter (1996)
The Sunlight on the Garden (2005)
So Hurt and Humiliated (1959)
The Japanese Umbrella (1964)
The Brighton Belle (1968)
Penguin Modern Stories 12 (1972) (with others)
Hard Feelings and Other Stories (1976)
Indirect Method and Other Stories (1980)
One Is a Wanderer (1985)
Secret Lives (1991) (with Patrick Gale and Tom Wakefield)
A Hand at the Shutter (1996)
The Sunlight on the Garden (2005)
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Francis King
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four (2020)
(Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, book 4)
edited by
Ryan Cagle and James D Jenkins
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories (2016)
(Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, book 1)
edited by
Ryan Cagle and James D Jenkins
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Francis King recommends
Innocent Erendira (1978)
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