James King (writer)

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James King is a writer and former academic specializing in art history and biography. He is Professor Emeritus of English at McMaster University.

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Education

King has a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and a MA and PhD from Princeton University.

Career

King taught English literature, creative writing, and art history at McMaster University.

Honours

1980-81: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow [1]

1988-90: Killam Research Fellow

1988: The Yorkshire Post Arts Award: given for 'the finest book devoted to art history published during 1987': awarded for Interior Landscapes: A Life of Paul Nash

1991: Finalist for the Governor General's prize for non-fiction (The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read) [2]

1993: Elected to the Royal Society of Canada [3]

1995: Virginia Woolf selected one of the best non-fiction books published in the United States during 1995 by Publishers Weekly

1995- : Listing in Who's Who in Canada

1996: Virginia Woolf: Best Book, Hamilton & Region Arts Council [given to the Penguin edition]

1997: The Life of Margaret Laurence: finalist for CBA Non-Fiction Book of the Year; National Bestseller; Vintage Canada edition: August 1998

1998: The Life of Margaret Laurence: Literary Award for 1997 for Non Fiction Book, Hamilton & Region Arts Council

2011: Étienne's Alphabet shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award [4]

2015: Old Masters shortlisted for the Trillium Award [5]

2016: Inner Places, The Life of David Milne won the Hamilton Literary Award for best non-fiction book [6]

Works

Fiction

Faking. Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 1999. [7] FRENCH translation published by XYZ Montreal in autumn 2001

Blue Moon. Toronto: The Dundurn Group 2000 [8]

Transformations. Toronto: Cormorant, 2003 [9]

Pure Inventions. Toronto: Cormorant, 2006 [10]

Ếtienne's Alphabet. Toronto: Cormorant, 2010 [11]

Old Masters. Toronto, Cormorant, 2014 [12]

Non-Fiction

William Cowper: A Biography. Durham: Duke University Press, 1986. [13]

Interior Landscapes: A Life of Paul Nash. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. [14]

The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson and New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. [15]

William Blake: His Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson and New York: St Martin's Press, 1991. [16] London: Weidenfeld Paperbacks, 1992. New York: St Martin's Press (paperback edition), 1992.

Virginia Woolf. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994; [17] New York: W.W. Norton, 1995; London: Penguin Books, 1995.

The Life of Margaret Laurence. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1997; [18] Vintage edition, 1998. [19]

Telling Lives or Telling Lies?: Biography and Fiction. Lethbridge: University of Lethbridge Press, 1997. [Text of the F.L. Priestley Memorial Lecture from 1996]

Jack, A Life with Writers: The Story of Jack McClelland. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. [20] Vintage: 2000. Chinese translation published in 2002 by Chongqing Publishing House. [21]

Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat. Toronto: Harper Collins Canada, 2002; American edition published by Steerforth Press, 2003. [22]

Japanese Warrior Prints, 1646-1905. Leiden: Hotei, 2007. Co-author with Yuriko Iwakiri. [23]

Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960. Bern: Peter Lang: 2010. [24]

Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan Winchester and Washington: Zero Books: 2011. [25]

Inward Journey: The Life of Lawren Harris. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2012. [26]

Inner Places: The Life of David Milne. Toronto: Dundurn, 2015. [27]

Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. [28]

The Way It Is: The Life of Greg Curnoe. Toronto: Dundurn, 2017. [29]

Bertram Brooker: Life and Art. On-line book published October 2018. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2018. [30]

Michael Snow: Lives and Works. Toronto: Dundurn, 2019. [31]

Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962. Hamilton and Vancouver: Art Gallery of Hamilton and Figure 1, 2019. [32]

Paul Nash as Designer and Illustrator. London: Lund Humphries, 2022. [33]

E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist as Designer. New York, Peter Lang, 2025. [34]

'Our Little Gang': The Lives of the Vorticists. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. [35]

Editions

co-editor, The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (Volume 1: Adelphi and Letters, 1750-81). Pp. xliii and 598. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. [36]

co-editor, The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (Volume 2: Letters, 1782-6). Pp. xxviii and 652. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. [37]

co-editor, The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (Volume 3: Letters, 1787-91). Pp. xxxiv and 630. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. [38]

co-editor, The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (Volume 4: Letters, 1792-9). Pp. xxxiv and 498. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. [39]

co-editor, The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (Volume 5: Prose and Cumulative Index). Pp. xxvi and 246. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. [40]

co-editor, William Cowper: Selected Letters. Pp. xxxi and 236. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. [41]

Co-editor. Early Voices. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 2001. [42]

References

  1. ↑ "James King – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation..." Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  2. ↑ "Governor General's Literary Award | Finalist | Non-fiction (English) | 1990 | Awards and Honors | LibraryThing". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  3. ↑ "Member Directory". The Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  4. ↑ Kinna (2011-12-30). "2011 Awards Round-up (9): The Final List of the Year". Kinna Reads. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  5. ↑ "Finalists for 2015 Trillium Book Award Announced – The BPC". www.thebpc.ca. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  6. ↑ "Awards: Gary Barwin' Lawrence Hill among Hamilton literary award finalists - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 2016-11-02. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  7. ↑ King, James (1999). Faking. Toronto ; Tonawanda, NY: Simon & Pierre. ISBN   978-0-88924-285-2.
  8. ↑ King, James (2000). Blue moon. Toronto: Simon & Pierre. ISBN   978-0-88924-293-7.
  9. ↑ King, James (2003). Transformations (1st ed.). Toronto: Cormorant Books. ISBN   978-1-896951-57-7.
  10. ↑ King, James (2006). Pure inventions. Toronto: Cormorant Books. ISBN   978-1-896951-94-2.
  11. ↑ King, James (27 November 2010). Étienne's Alphabet. Cormorant Books. ISBN   978-1897151877.
  12. ↑ King, James (2014). Old masters. Toronto, Ontario: Cormorant Books. ISBN   978-1-77086-422-1. OCLC   879604606.
  13. ↑ King, James (1986). William Cowper: a biography. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN   978-0-8223-0513-2.
  14. ↑ King, James (1987). Interior landscapes: a life of Paul Nash. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN   978-0-297-79078-5.
  15. ↑ King, James (1990). The last modern: a life of Herbert Read. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN   978-0-312-04810-5.
  16. ↑ King, James (1991). William Blake, his life (1st U.S. ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN   978-0-312-05292-8.
  17. ↑ King, James (1994). Virginia Woolf (1. publ ed.). London: H. Hamilton. ISBN   978-0-241-13063-6.
  18. ↑ King, James (1997). The life of Margaret Lauence. Toronto: Knopf Canada. ISBN   978-0-676-97073-9.
  19. ↑ King, James (2012). The Life of Margaret Laurence. Toronto: Knopf Canada. ISBN   978-0-676-97129-3.
  20. ↑ King, James (2011). Jack: The Story of Jack Mcclelland. Toronto: Knopf Canada. ISBN   978-0-676-97298-6.
  21. ↑ King, James (2000). Publishing magnate and his writers ---- Jack McClelland Biography (Chinese ed.). Chongqing Publishing House. ISBN   9787536653900.
  22. ↑ King, James (2002). Farley: the life of Farley Mowat (1st Steerforth ed.). South Royalton, Vt: Steerforth Press. ISBN   978-1-58642-055-0.
  23. ↑ King, James; Iwakiri, Yuriko (2007). Japanese warrior prints, 1646-1905. Leiden ; Boston: Hotei Pub. ISBN   978-90-74822-84-8. OCLC   64967763.
  24. ↑ King, James (2010). Beyond the great wave: the Japanese landscape print, 1727-1960. Natur, wissenschaft und die künste. Bern: P. Lang. ISBN   978-3-0343-0317-0.
  25. ↑ King, James (2012). Under foreign eyes: Western cinematic adaptations of postwar Japan. Winchester Washington: Zero Books. ISBN   978-1-78099-048-4.
  26. ↑ King, James (2012). Inward journey: the life of Lawren Harris. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers. ISBN   978-1-77102-206-4. OCLC   798415678.
  27. ↑ King, James (2015). Inner Places: The Life of David Milne. Toronto: Dundurn. ISBN   978-1-4597-2907-0.
  28. ↑ King, James (2016). Roland Penrose: The life of a surrealist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN   978-1-4744-1450-0. OCLC   933722103.
  29. ↑ King, James (2017). The Way It Is: The Life of Greg Curnoe. Toronto: Dundurn. ISBN   978-1-4597-3688-7.
  30. ↑ King, James; Brooker, Bertram (2018). Bertram Brooker - life & work. Toronto, ON: Art Canada Institute. ISBN   978-1-4871-0176-3.
  31. ↑ King, James (2019). Michael Snow: Lives and Works. Toronto: Dundurn. ISBN   978-1-4597-4134-8.
  32. ↑ "Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962". Art Gallery of Hamilton. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  33. ↑ King, James (2022). Paul Nash: designer and illustrator. London: Lund Humphries. ISBN   978-1-84822-445-2.
  34. ↑ King, James (2024). E. McKnight Kauffer: an artist in design. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN   978-3-0343-5152-2.
  35. ↑ King, James (14 July 2025). 'Our Little Gang': The Lives of the Vorticists. Reaktion Books. ISBN   978-1836390558.
  36. ↑ Cowper, William; King, James; Ryskamp, Charles (1979). The letters and prose writings of William Cowper. Oxford : New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-811863-3.
  37. ↑ Cowper, William (1981). The letters and prose writings of William Cowper. 2: Letters 1782 - 1786. Oxford: Clarendon Pr. ISBN   978-0-19-812607-2.
  38. ↑ Cowper, William (2001). The letters and prose writings of William Cowper. 3: Letters 1787 - 1791 (Repr ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Pr. ISBN   978-0-19-812608-9.
  39. ↑ Cowper, William (1984). The letters and prose writings of William Cowper. 4: Letters 1792 - 1799. Oxford: Clarendon Pr. ISBN   978-0-19-812681-2.
  40. ↑ Cowper, William (1986). The letters and prose writings of William Cowper. 5: Prose 1756 - c.1799 and cumulative index. Oxford: Clarendon Pr. ISBN   978-0-19-812690-4.
  41. ↑ Cowper, William; King, James; Ryskamp, Charles (1989). William Cowper, selected letters. Oxford : New York: Clarenden Press ; Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-818596-3.
  42. ↑ Hollingshead, Greg; King, James; Walters, T. L. (2001). Early voices. Juvenilia Press. ISBN   9780968828311.
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