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Ross King

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born
July 16, 1962 in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada

gender
male

genre
Historical Fiction, Nonfiction


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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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.

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...more


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Average rating: 3.80 · 8,666 ratings · 823 reviews · 20 distinct works
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a ...
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The Judgment of Paris: The ...
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Ex-Libris
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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Domino
2.92 of 5 stars 2.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — 9 editions
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Defiant Spirits
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions
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The Fantasia of Leonardo da...
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a ...
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“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.”
― Ross King, Ex-Libris
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“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as this one—was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more than the greatest army or magazine.”
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“Quite amazing how determined kings and emperors have been to destroy books. But civilization is built on such desecrations, is it not? Justinian the Great burned all of the Greek scrolls in Constantinople after he codified the Roman law and drove the Ostrogoths from Italy. And Shih Huang Ti, the first Emperor of China, the man who unified the five kingdoms and built the Great Wall, decreed that every book written before he was born should be destroyed.”
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