Edward King (author)

Edward King (1848–1896) was an American author and journalist born in Middlefield, Massachusetts. His 1875 travel memoir The Great South is an important historical document with extensive descriptions of African American church music and other subjects. Each section of The Great South was originally published in an issue of Scribner's Magazine.^[1]

For a time he was a correspondent in Paris on behalf of American periodicals.^[2] During the Russo-Turkish War he was a correspondent in the Balkans with the Russian army.^[2]

Publications

Europe in Storm and Calm (1885)

• My Paris: French Character Sketches (1868)
• Kentucky's Love; or, Roughing it Around Paris (1873)
• The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland (1875)
• French Political Leaders (1876)
• Echoes from the Orient: with miscellaneous poems (1880)
• The Great Savage; a novel (1883)
• Europe in Storm and Calm: Twenty Years' Experiences and Reminiscences of an American Journalist (1885)
• The Golden Spike; a fantasy in prose (1886)
• A Venetian Lover (1887)
• Texas: 1874 (?)
• Joseph Zalmonah : a novel (1894)
• Under the red flag; or, The adventures of two American boys in the days of the commune (1895)

References

• Darden, Robert (1996). People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826417523.

Notes

1. Darden, pg. 113
2. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, By John Foster Kirk, Allibone, Samuel Austin. Published by J.B. Lippincott, 1891. pg. 948

External links

• Works by or about Edward King at Internet Archive
• The Great South, full text (HTML)