Larry L. King, Author . Public Affairs $26.95 (353p) ISBN 978-1-58648-384-5
To read this loving, loquacious, warts-and-all tribute to the famed Harper's
editor and author (My Dog Skip
) who died in 1999 is to be a fly on the wall at a high-spirited wake attended by literati like Norman Mailer and David Halberstam. The...
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Larry L. King, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80928-8
""No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money,'' said Samuel Johnson, and Larry King concurs with this proclamation as he depicts the difficulties and rewards of the seemingly romantic profession of freelance writing. King, a Texas journalist
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Larry L. King, Author, Amy Schwartz, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $11.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-81031-4
Lozo Brown has just moved next dooran event that causes King's timid young narrator no end of anxiety. He envisions his new neighbor as not only a giant but a bully, and, hiding in his room, imagines himself meeting dire fates at Lozo's hands. When...
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Larry L. King, Author, Richard Holland, Editor Texas Christian University Press $27.5 (404p) ISBN 978-0-87565-203-0
Before he wrote the 1979 rowdy musical comedy Broadway hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, King worked a variety of jobs, leaving a trail of sometimes funny, often bilious letters to editors, writers, politicians and assorted others. Spanning...
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Larry L. King, Author, Amy Schwartz, Author, R. Hayes, Editor Puffin Books $3.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-050593-1
Schwartz's vivid pictures add suspense in this tale of a boy's growing fear of a new neighbor; according to PW , ``children. . .will appreciate the humor in the narrator's imagination-run-wild.'' Ages 3-8. (Oct.)
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