James King
Fellow
Current Employer
McMaster University
Election Year
1993
Academy
Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Discipline
Literature
Department
Department of English and Cultural Studies
Keywords
Biography, modernism, Japanese woodblock prints
Internationally known and respected as a scholarly editor and biographer of the eighteenth-century literary figure, William Cowper, James King has become one of Canada's foremost writers of biography. His acclaimed accounts of the life and work of Paul Nash, Herbert Read, and (most recently) William Blake have had an important impact not only on the interpretations of the figures about which he has written but also on the very nature of the genre of biography.