Information AboutClive King |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT CLIVE KING | |
| 1924 births | |
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| alumni of downing college, cambridge | |
| alumni of the school of oriental and african studies | |
| people from richmond, london | |
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Born in 1924 in Richmond , Surrey , he moved in 1926, with his parents, to Oliver's Farm, Ash, Kent , on the North Downs , alongside which was an abandoned Chalk-pit . His early education was at a private infant school where one of the teachers, Miss Brodie, claimed to have taught Christopher Robin Milne , and introduced Clive to stories about Stone Age people. Thereafter he went to King's School, Rochester , he studied English and Russian at Downing College , Cambridge , and the School Of Oriental And African Studies , London . From 1943 to 1947 he served in the Royal Navy , voyaging to Iceland , twice to the Russian Arctic , to India , Sri Lanka , Australia , East Indies , Malaysia and Japan , where he observed the ruins of Hiroshima within months of its destruction. Civilian postings as an officer of the British Council took him to Amsterdam , Belfast , Aleppo , Damascus (styled as Visiting Professor to the University), Beirut , Dhaka and Madras , and gave opportunities for independent travel between these places and England. In 1973 he became a full-time writer following the success of his best-known book '' Stig Of The Dump '', which has since been twice adapted for television. His nineteen books include: |
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