Charles King
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Charles King

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Charles King is the author of eight books, including the New York Times-bestselling GODS OF THE UPPER AIR, winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and the Los Angeles Times history prize; MIDNIGHT AT THE PERA PALACE, a New York Times Editors' Choice; and ODESSA: GENIUS AND DEATH IN A CITY OF DREAMS, winner of a National Jewish Book Award. A native of the Ozark Mountains, King studied history and politics at the University of Arkansas and Oxford University, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University. Author photo by Mary Fecteau.
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    • Gods of the Upper Air

    • How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
    • By: Charles King
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • Every Valley

    • The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
    • By: Charles King
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Odessa

    • Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
    • By: Charles King
    • Narrated by: Andy Caploe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-13
    • Language: English
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