5/23/2023 0 Comments Stig of the Dump by Clive KingĪfter leaving the Reserve, King began working for the British Council and was posted to Amsterdam as an administrative officer (1948–50). From 1943 to 1946 he served as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, which took him to the Arctic, India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Australia, Malaya (now Malaysia) and Japan, where he saw the then-recent devastation of Hiroshima. He was educated at the King's School, Rochester from 1933 to 1941 and then at Downing College, Cambridge, from 1941 to 1943, graduating with a BA in English. Life and career Ĭlive King was born in Richmond, then in Surrey, on 28 April 1924 and grew up in Ash in Kent. 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. Children's literature, historical fictionĭavid Clive King (28 April 1924 – 10 July 2018 ) was an English author best known for his children's book Stig of the Dump (1963).
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