Francis King

This page is not about Francis X. King, the writer on occult topics

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Francis Henry King (born 1923) is a British novelist and short story writer, and a poet.

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1923 - Novelist - Short story

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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.

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Adelboden - Switzerland - India - Shrewsbury School - Balliol College, Oxford - World War II - Conscientious objector - British Council - Europe - Kyoto

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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.

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Homosexual - AIDS

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