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Ross King (author)

Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1962)

For other people with the same name, see Ross King.

Ross King
Born	(1962-07-16) July 16, 1962 (age 62) Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Occupation	Writer, critic, historian
Genre	Historical fiction, historical non-fiction
Notable works	Domino

Ross King (born July 16, 1962) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works.

Career and works

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King was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada and was raised in the nearby village of North Portal. He received his undergraduate university education at the University of Regina, where in 1984 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English Literature. Continuing his studies at the University of Regina, he received a Master of Arts degree in 1986 upon completing a thesis on the poet T. S. Eliot. Later he achieved a PhD from York University in Toronto (1992), where he specialized in eighteenth-century English literature.

King moved to England to take up a position as a post-doctoral research fellow at University College Lon