David King
Agent: Suzanne Gluck
William Morris Agency
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About David King
David King is the author of the acclaimed Vienna 1814 and Finding Atlantis, which was a Main Selection for the Book-of-the-Month Club and has been translated into several foreign languages. A Fulbright Scholar with a master’s degree from Cambridge University, he taught European history at the University of Kentucky for several years. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife and children.
Did you know that David . . .
- Lived in Europe for six years – where he traveled widely, developed a passion for history, and decided he wanted to be a writer.
- Loved teaching European history at university. Students in his lecture classes of 100-200 people consistently rated the overall quality of his teaching 3.9 out of 4.0; in his small seminars, it was right at 4.0.
- Played forward on his college basketball team in Cambridge, and, for a few summers, mid-off for a cricket team.
- Hosted weekly alternative music show for a college radio station, and still enjoys discovering new music.
- Is an avid book collector and one of his favorite volumes is a first edition of Olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica, published in 1679 and found in an antiquarian bookstore in Sweden.
- Is working on his next book, which will be set in Paris.
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