David Clive King was an English author best known for his children's book Stig of the Dump.
10 Facts About Clive King
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Clive King 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.
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Clive King was born in Richmond, then in Surrey, on 28 April 1924 and grew up in Ash in Kent.
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Clive King 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.
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Clive King served as a warden for East Sussex County Council from 1955 to 1960.
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Clive King attended the School of Oriental and African Studies in London from 1966 to 1967, then served as an education adviser for the East Pakistan Education Centre in Dhaka from 1967 to 1971.
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Clive King once stated that his first story was a script for a Western film.
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Clive King wrote The Town that Went South, Stig of the Dump and The 22 Letters before deciding to become a full-time writer in 1973.
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Clive King went on to write another 20 novels between 1972 and 2008, but he is probably best known for Stig of the Dump, which has twice been adapted for television and continues to be taught in British schools.
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Clive King was married twice, had three children and lived in Thurlton, Norfolk.