The Times Literary Supplement (4 December 1959) called Francis King "a writer perfectly equipped for the short story." John Nicholson (London Times, 20 November 1980) writes: "His themes are grand, and his achievement is to blind us to the limitations...
The title story of Francis King's latest short story collection, Indirect Method (1980), suggests covertly the way this talented and prolific writer proceeds in his own fiction: the direct method is not for him, despite its success in language...
Francis Henry King (born 1923) is a British novelist and short story writer, and a poet. 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...
Francis X. King, historian of occultism: born Winchester 10 January 1934; married; died 8 November 1994. Magic, and the groups of men and women who practised it, was the prevailing interest of Francis X. King. "He was one of the ablest of the...
Steve Francis scored 32 points and Yao Ming had six crucial points in the closing minutes as the Rockets almost blew a 19-point lead before snapping the Sacramento Kings' six-game winning streak, 103- 96, last night in Houston. "It was like eating a...
In reviewing King's Yesterday Came Suddenly alongside Giles Gordon's Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? and William Trevor's Excursions in the Real World, Beer concludes that King's “detached” prose style serves Yesterday Came Suddenly well.
In the following review of The Woman Who Was God, Glazebrook asserts that King includes too much detail and too many fleeting characters in his novel. However, Glazebrook does praise King's well-constructed narrative.
In the following review of Yesterday Came Suddenly, Lively commends King's memoir, which she feels is an engaging and moving work, in large part because of King's use of anecdotes and lengthy dialogue segments.
