Clive King

Clive King
BornDavid Clive King
(1924-04-28)28 April 1924
Richmond, Surrey, England
Died10 July 2018(2018-07-10) (aged 94)
Thurlton, Norfolk, England
NationalityBritish
EducationKing's School, Rochester
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge (BA, 1943)
School of Oriental and African Studies
GenreChildren's literature, historical fiction
Notable worksStig of the Dump (1963)

David Clive King (28 April 1924 – 10 July 2018[1]) was an English author best known for his children's book Stig of the Dump (1963).[2] He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the last years of the Second World War and then worked for the British Council in a wide range of overseas postings from which he later drew inspiration for some of his novels.[3]

  1. ^ "Stig of the Dump author Clive King dies". BBC News. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  2. ^ "King, Clive". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  3. ^ Crouch, Marcus, "King, (David) Clive" in Twentieth Century Children's Writers, ed. D. L. Kirkpatrick, Macmillan, 2nd edition 1983, pp. 430–31.