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Edward Smith King was born on September 08, 1848 at Middlefield, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Edward and Lorinda (Smith) King. When he was about three years old his father, a Methodist minister, disappeared while on a sea trip to recover his health. His mother then taught school until about 1860 when she moved to Huntington, Massachusetts, and there married Samuel W. Fisher, a clergyman who abandoned the ministry and became a teacher and paper-mill worker.
King was educated by his stepfather.
King began work in a factory, but at sixteen he left home, went to Springfield, and became a reporter on the Springfield Daily Union. Two years later he joined the staff of the Springfield Republican which he served until 1870 as reporter, subeditor, and editorial writer. He was sent to the Paris exposition in 1867 and while there gathered materials for his first book, My Paris (1868), an account of Parisian life seen through youthful and romantic eyes. When he went to the Boston Morning Journal in 1870, he returned to France to cover the Franco-Prussian War and the events of the Commune. He was adventurous, was twice arrested as a spy by the Germans, served as an emergency nurse to the wounded at Frankfort, and claimed and cared for the bodies of Americans killed in the street fighting of the Commune. These experiences were exploited in his first novel, Kentucky's Love (1873), which involved a group of war correspondents, and later in Under the Red Flag (1895), a story for boys laid in Paris in the days of the Commune.
After Dr. J. G. Holland, of the Springfield Republican, became editor of Scribner's Monthly, he invited King to travel through the southern states and gather materials for a series of articles on the effects of the Civil War, the economic promise of the South, and interesting features of its landscape and social life. This tour extended into 1874, and the articles published in Scribner's, illustrated by J. Wells Champney, appeared in book form as The Great South (1875). This was twice reprinted in the same year in England as The Southern States of North America. In New Orleans he met George W. Cable and read some of his short stories. Through King's interest Cable's stories began to appear in Scribner's, and an enduring friendship grew up between them. In 1875 he returned to Europe as correspondent to the Boston Morning Journal, with his headquarters at Paris, but made visits to America for the Philadelphia world's fair in 1876 and the opening of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883. He went to Spain to report the Carlist Wars and to the Balkans for the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.
In 1876 appeared his French Political Leaders, with an introduction explaining the make-up of the National Assembly. His first volume of verse, Echoes from the Orient (1880), included poetical sketches of Balkan scenes and people, with some lyrics. This was followed by a novel, The Gentle Savage (1883), in which an Oklahoma Indian is placed against a background of European sophistication. Utilizing many of his newspaper articles, he pieced together a large book, Europe in Storm and Calm (1885), which described European life and events to the untraveled American.
King was popular in American circles in Paris, where he founded the Stanley Club. After 1885 he became involved in a disastrous business venture, which burdened him with heavy debts. In 1886 The Golden Spike was published, a feeble novel in which the opening of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the scenery of the Northwest supply the background and chief interest. He then returned to poetry in A Venetian Lover (1887), a narrative in decorous blank verse interspersed with many pleasing lyrics. Still harassed by business troubles, he returned to America in 1888 and served as editorial writer on the New York Morning Journal and on Collier's Once a Week.
In 1893 he went to Chicago to write articles on the world's fair. In the same year appeared his novel, Joseph Zalmonah. He also compiled Cassell's Complete Pocket Guide to Europe (1891 and later editions), contributed four chapters to an elegant travel book, On the Rhine (1881), and wrote a biographical and critical introduction to M. French Sheldon's Salammb" of Gustave Flaubert (1885). Although all of his books were written primarily for money, he was ambitious to write good poetry.
At his death he left in manuscript a number of poems which his friends praised as his best work.
Edward Smith King's fame chiefly rested on his novels. His best work was Joseph Zalmonah, which exposed the conditions of the masses in the slums and sweatshops of New York. His travel notes The Great South were considered an important historical document, where he covered the problems that the Civil War had inflicted on the S. He also contributed numerous articles and correspondence, stories and poems to periodicals.
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King was a secretary of the Society de Gens de Lettres.
King was described as a simple, dignified man, with a restrained and gentle manner.
King never married. He lived with his half-sister and her husband, John McGhie, in Brooklyn.
