Robin King
Robin Victor Lethbridge Raleigh King, (born in Bangalore, India 25 November 1920 - died in Majorca, 26 November 1961), was a British writer, playwright and novelist. The eldest son of R.N. Raleigh King, actor, film maker and novelist, by his first wife.[1] He was brought up in Leamington Spa and, after his parents' separation in 1932, in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey 1933-1938. During the war, he served in North Africa and Italy, which provided the material for his first two books, published by Arthur Barker, Breaking Point (1952) and The Human Element (1953).
He was the BBC Literary Correspondent in France in 1945-1947 and afterwards was a regular literary reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement[2], The Spectator, The New Statesman and other periodicals. He had a particular interest in modern French literature and in 1953 Arthur Barker published his expurgated translation of Le Sabbat by Maurice Sachs, with a dedication to Sachs' former partner, Henry Wibbels. King's translation of a dramatization of Zola's Therese Raquin was performed as The Lovers at the Winter Garden Theatre in Covent Garden in May 1955, with Sam Wanamaker and Eva Bartok in the leading roles. His best received book, No Paradise, was published in 1955, followed by Sailor in the East (1956). Both were accounts of King's experience as a steward in the merchant navy, and owe something to the style of Thomas Wolfe, whom he greatly admired. His last two books were All at Sea (1957) and The Angry Sun (1959).
On 22 June 1950, King married Luisa Manfredi at the Kensington Registry Office in London. They had separated before his death. Manfredi, a hero of the Italian Resistance, later became political secretary to the Communist deputy, Giorgio Amendola. She died in Turin in 1990.[3] There were no children. In his last years, King lived mainly in Majorca, where his mother had settled, and where he died the day after his 41st birthday.
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