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Clive King


Born
in Richmond, London, The United Kingdom
April 24, 1924

Died
July 10, 2018

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Genre
Children's


David Clive King was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1924. In 1926 he moved with his parents to Oliver's Farm, Ash, Kent, on the North Downs, alongside which was an abandoned chalk-pit. His early education was at a private infant school where one of the teachers, Miss Brodie, claimed to have taught Christopher Robin Milne, and introduced Clive to stories about Stone Age people. Thereafter he went to King's School, Rochester, Downing College, Cambridge, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

From 1943 to 1947 he served in the Royal Navy, voyaging to Iceland, twice to the Russian Arctic, to India, Sri Lanka, Australia, East Indies, Malaysia and Japan, where he observed the ruins of Hiroshima within months of its destruction. Civil ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 11,625 ratings · 471 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors
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“Manners IT WAS the Easter holiday. Barney and Lou were doing some painting in the dining-room”
― Clive King, Stig of the Dump
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“Party Manners IT WAS the Easter holiday. Barney and Lou were doing some painting in the dining-room”
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