Roger King completed a draft of a novel with the working title The Industrial Revolution of Love. Drawing on fiction, existing literature, memoir and essay, the novel travels through 250 years of desire and capitalism, to ask the question, "What's next?" An earlier novel, A Girl From Zanzibar, won the BABRA award for novel of the year. His screenplay adaptation is optioned for a feature film, Joanna Lipper directing. Other novels include Sea Level, Written on a Stranger’s Map, Horizontal Hotel, and the autobiographical, Love and Fatigue in America. He has also worked as a UN economist in many Asia and Africa countries and as a documentary film producer in collaboration with Mira Nair, Dinaz Stafford, and, currently, Rani Khanna.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Roger King
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Leverett, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989, 1990, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2013, 2018
More:
www.rogerking.org
Studios
Mixter
Roger King worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…