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1. King, Edward (94%)
Viscount Kingsborough (1795-1837), bibliophile, born in Co. Cork and educated in Oxford, he edited the Antiquities of Mexico in vellum and colour plates (9 vols., 1830-48) at a personal expense of £32,000.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature in Literature)

(1923- ), novelist, short-story writer, and critic; worked abroad for the British Council (1949-63); several of his novels have foreign settings, notably Japan and Greece.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature in Literature)

(1923- ), novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and editor.
(From A Dictionary of Writers & Their Works in Literature)

4. King, Henry (87%)
(1592-1669), became bishop of Chichester and was the friend of Donne and I. Walton.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature in Literature)

5. King, Henry (83%)
(1592-1669), English prelate and poet.
(From A Dictionary of Writers & Their Works in Literature)

(1929-1968), orator, political strategist, essayist, and leader during the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature in Literature)

(1839-1932), novelist.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature in Literature)

American horror writer.
(From A Dictionary of Writers & Their Works in Literature)

9. King, William (51%)
(1650-1729), theologian and Archbishop of Dublin.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature in Literature)

10. King, William (49%)
(1663-1712), a writer of burlesques, satires, and light verse, much of which was published anonymously.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature in Literature)

11. King, William (47%)
(1663-1712) English poet and miscellaneous writer
(From A Dictionary of Writers & Their Works in Literature)

(b. 1937), essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, dramatist, scriptwriter for film and television, producer, director, actor, and contributor to the Black Arts movement.
(From The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature in Literature)







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