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Perhaps best known for his stage and film musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, LARRY L. KING is a novelist, journalist and playwright whose new book, In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor (Public Affairs, March 2006), tells the story of his friend and colleague Willie Morris, editor of Harper's in the 1960s and author of North Toward Home and My Dog Skip. A native Texan, King was working on Capitol Hill when Willie Morris invited him to join the group of writers (including David Halberstam and Norman Mailer) who would make Harper's the magazine to read for a generation. His new book recalls those years with Morris as well as the troubles and mysteries of the editor's later life. Morris died in 1999. A longtime member of WIW, King is the author of 14 books, seven stage plays, several TV documentaries, a few short stories and hundreds of magazine articles. He is the only writer to be a finalist for a unique "Triple Crown" of American letters: a National Book Award, a Broadway Tony and a television Emmy. His book None But a Blockhead: On Being a Writer is must reading for anyone contemplating the freelance life. King lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife-lawyer-agent, Barbara S. Blaine.
Bio as of November, 2009.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1994 - Watch now.
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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