Francis King (19232011) w a famous mn f letters in hi time, producing fifty volumes during a sixty-four-year career, including novels, story collections, poetry, criticism, nd autobiography, nd h w widely knwn a book reviewer nd theatrical critic.
Hi firt novel, Th Dividing Stream (1951), received th Somerset Maugham Award fr bt nvl b a young English writer, nd tw f hi subsequent works, A Domestic Animal (1970) nd Th Nick f Tim (2002), wr nominated fr th Booker Prize.