Background
He was born in 1955 in Meriden, Connecticut. His father, Henry T. King, was a United States. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Dave King
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Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cooper Union Advancement of Science and Art, New York, 1980. Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York, 2000.
Career
His first novel, The Ha-Ha, was published in 2005 and was named one of the best books of that year by the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The New York Times Book Review wrote, "The Ha-Ha is full of emotional truth and establishes King as a writer of consequence." King holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and film from Cooper Union (received 1980) and an Master of Fine Arts in writing from Columbia University (2000). At Cooper Union, he studied with Jim Dine, Lee Krasner, and Robert Breer, among others
He was part of the East Village art scene, then formed a company specializing in murals and trompe-l"œil painting.
That company, with which King is no longer affiliated, still exists under the name Franklin Tartaglione, Limited Liability Company. At Columbia, he worked with Michael Cunningham, Fenton Johnson, Richard Howard, April Bernard, Lucie Brock Broido and David Plante. The Ha-Ha, in substantially different form, was his thesis project
He has taught cultural studies at The School of Visual Arts and writing at Baruch College and New York University. The two have been a couple since 1975.
In 1998 and 1999, King was editor-in-chief of Columbia, Columbia University’s literary journal.
While completing The Ha-Ha, he worked as an editor at The Little Bookroom, in New New York
Achievements
Membership
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Society Fellows American Academy (Rome).
Connections
Life partner Franklin Tartaglione, December 14, 1975.
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Rome Prize Pushcart Prize; Rome Prize; the Quill Foundation's award
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.