Books and Writers

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KEATS, JOHN
Romantic Poet. Died of TB in Rome

KEELER, HARRY STEPHEN
Novelist, especially of detective fiction. Married Hazel Goodwin in 1919 (d. 1960) and then married Thelma Rinaldo in 1963

KEENE, CAROLYN
Children's Writer

KELMSCOTT PRESS, THE
Established by William Morris in 1891. Morris designed three types, Golden (1890), Troy (1891) and Chaucer (1892) and published all his books using special handmade paper and inks. In total the Press published some 17,565 volumes. When published they would have cost £143.35 for the lot. At current values they are worth between £45,625 and £72,050 (1995)

KENNEDY, RICHARD PITT
Joined the Hogarth Press 1926. Became a freelance artist 1937 and got married

KENNEDY, ASSASSINATION OF JFK
Shot in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, who in turn was shot by nightclub-owner, Jack Ruby

KENT, THE COUNTY OF

KEROUAC, JACK
Novelist. Died of an abdominal haemorrhage, probably brought on by his excessive drinking.

KEW GARDENS

KHAYYAM, OMAR
Turkish

KING, STEPHEN
Horror Novelist. Recovering alcoholic and drug abuser. Going blind through a genetic disorder, he was knocked-down and nearly killed by a camper van in Maine

KING PENGUINS
A series started in November 1939. The series ceased in 1959 after 76 volumes. Those issued after 1949 had d/w. The books originated in the Insel-Verlag series published in Germany

KINGS & QUEENS OF ENGLAND

KINGSLEY, CHARLES
Clergyman and novelist. Undoubtedly a Racist. Married Frances Grenfell

KING-SMITH, DICK
Children's writer & farmer

KINGSTON, WILLIAM HENRY GILES
Novelist. Grew up in Oporto, Portugal where his father had business interests. Wrote 125 stories of the sea for boys

KIPLING, JOSEPH RUDYARD
Novelist. Nobel Prize 1907. Married an American, Caroline Balestier in 1892. His only son was killed in First WW at Loos, and his daughter Josephine died in childhood from pneumonia. He died from a duodenal ulcer. Two biographers have him as secretly homosexual. Buried in Westminster Abbey

KNITTING : ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1910

KOONTZ, DEAN R
Horror Novelist