Dean King Biography

An award winning author of ten books and dozens of articles in national magazines Dean King has a passion for historical adventure stories. His earliest works were the best-selling companion books to Patrick O’Brian’s epic Aubrey-Maturin novel series A Sea of Words Harbors & High Seas and Every Man Will Do His Duty. He followed these up with a critically acclaimed biography of the eccentric author Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed which was named a big book of the year by The Daily Telegraph where it was serialized in four full pages.
King followed this biography with the national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara (Little Brown 2004) which tells the true story of the shipwreck of a Connecticut merchant brig Commerce on the west coast of Africa in 1815. The crew was enslaved on the desert by nomadic Arabs and had to travel 800 miles across the Sahara to reach freedom. Based on the memoirs of Captain James Riley and sailor Archibald Robbins which King discovered in the New York Yacht Club library and translated into ten languages Skeletons was a multiple Book of the Year selection the basis of a feature in National Geographic Adventure and a two-hour special documentary on the History Chanel. It is currently being developed as a feature film in London.

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