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'''Florence Virginia King''' (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist. |
'''Florence Virginia King''' (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist. |
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While her early writings focused on the [[Southern United States|American South]] and those who live there, much of King's later work was published in ''[[National Review]]''. Until her retirement in 2002, her column in ''National Review'', "The Misanthrope's Corner", was known for "serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean", as the magazine put it. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for ''National Review'' |
While her early writings focused on the [[Southern United States|American South]] and those who live there, much of King's later work was published in ''[[National Review]]''. Until her retirement in 2002, her column in ''National Review'', "The Misanthrope's Corner", was known for "serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean", as the magazine put it. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for ''National Review'' titled "The Bent Pin." |
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King was a [[traditionalist conservatism|traditionalist conservative]], but not a "movement conservative," and she objected to much of the [[populism|populist]] direction of the contemporary American Right.<ref name="king31998"/> She was an active [[Episcopal Church |
King was a [[traditionalist conservatism|traditionalist conservative]], but not a "[[movement conservative]]," and she objected to much of the [[populism|populist]] direction of the contemporary American Right.<ref name="king31998"/> She was an active [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]] (though she often referred to her [[agnosticism]]),<ref name="king31998">{{citation|first=Florence|last=King|date=March 9, 1998|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/09mar98/gimlet030998.html|title=Misanthrope's Corner|accessdate=November 23, 2007|periodical=[[National Review]]}}</ref> a member of [[Phi Alpha Theta]], and a [[monarchist]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2023|reason=re monarchism, sources must be read carefully as King was famously acerbic and ironic}} |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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King was born January 5, 1936<ref name=Washington>{{Cite news|title = Florence King, acerbic conservative writer, dies at 80|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/florence-king-acerbic-conservative-writer-dies-at-80/2016/01/07/6aec8a76-b565-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html|newspaper = The Washington Post|date = 2016 |
King was born January 5, 1936<ref name=Washington>{{Cite news|title = Florence King, acerbic conservative writer, dies at 80|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/florence-king-acerbic-conservative-writer-dies-at-80/2016/01/07/6aec8a76-b565-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html|newspaper = The Washington Post|date = January 7, 2016|access-date = January 8, 2016|issn = 0190-8286|language = en-US|first = Matt|last = Schudel}}</ref> in [[Washington, D.C.]], to an American mother, Louise Cora (née Ruding) King, and a British father, Herbert Frederick King. She grew up in the District with her parents, her maternal grandmother, and her grandmother's maid. Each of these people influenced her development as a person. In particular, her grandmother required high standards of behavior from her, referring to the family as descendants of [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]]'s colonial elite. In many of her writings, King often referred to the comical contradictions between the material reality of her [[lower middle class]] upbringing and the [[snob]]bish behavior of her grandmother.<ref>King, Florence. ''Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady''. New York: Stein and Day, 1985 (see chapters 1 and 2).<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--></ref> |
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In 1957, King received her BA in history from [[American University]] in Washington D.C., where she was inducted into [[Phi Alpha Theta]]. She attended the [[University of Mississippi]] as a graduate student, but did not complete her M.A. degree after discovering she could make a living as a writer.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/arts/florence-king-writer-who-wielded-an-acerbic-wit-dies-at-80.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2016 |
In 1957, King received her BA in history from [[American University]] in Washington D.C., where she was inducted into [[Phi Alpha Theta]]. She attended the [[University of Mississippi]] as a graduate student, but did not complete her M.A. degree after discovering she could make a living as a writer.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/arts/florence-king-writer-who-wielded-an-acerbic-wit-dies-at-80.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = January 9, 2016|access-date = January 11, 2016|issn = 0362-4331|first = Margalit|last = Fox}}</ref><!-- see talk before restoring old text --> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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King had several occupations before she began writing as a career. In the mid-1950s, she was a history teacher in [[Suitland, Maryland]]. Later in the decade, she was a file clerk at the [[National Association of Realtors]]. From 1964 to 1967, King was a feature writer for the ''[[Raleigh News and Observer]]''. While at the newspaper, King received the North Carolina Press Woman Award for reporting.<ref name="starkville">{{citation|title=Florence King: The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project|year=2002|url=http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/KingFlorence/FlorenceKing.html|accessdate=February 16, 2007| |
King had several occupations before she began writing as a career. In the mid-1950s, she was a history teacher in [[Suitland, Maryland]]. Later in the decade, she was a file clerk at the [[National Association of Realtors]]. From 1964 to 1967, King was a feature writer for the ''[[Raleigh News and Observer]]''. While at the newspaper, King received the North Carolina Press Woman Award for reporting.<ref name="starkville">{{citation|title=Florence King: The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project|year=2002|url=http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/KingFlorence/FlorenceKing.html|accessdate=February 16, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219091346/http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/KingFlorence/FlorenceKing.html|archivedate=February 19, 2007}}</ref> |
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The majority of King's works under her own name have been non-fiction essays. She also wrote a historical romance novel, ''Barbarian Princess'', under the [[pseudonym]] Laura Buchanan. King also admitted to having written numerous pornographic stories, [[Lesbian pulp fiction|pulp paperback books]] and erotica under various pseudonyms. She gained national attention with her column "The [[Misanthropy|Misanthrope]]'s Corner" in ''National Review'', a conservative magazine of political and social commentary. She also wrote numerous articles for ''[[The American Enterprise]]''. Her first book published under her own name was 1975's ''Southern Ladies and Gentlemen''. The work provides a humorous guide to the South for "Yankees". Her most popular book, ''Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady'' (1985), is a semi-autobiographical work focusing on, among other things, her grandmother's attempts to mold King into a "Southern lady".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Barbara|first1=Hall|title=Remembering Florence King: A Tribute to Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady|url=http://www.publicbooks.org/remembering-florence-king-a-tribute-toconfessions-of-a-failed-southern-lady/|website=publicbooks.org|publisher=Public Books|accessdate=May 28, 2018|date=February 3, 2016}}</ref> |
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In ''Confessions'', King says she had relationships with both men and women during college: one woman she fell in love with was killed in a car crash. This relationship was detailed in ''Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady''.<ref name="wittmann">{{citation|last=Wittmann|first=Kelly|url=http://nhnh.essortment.com/florenceking_rzkm.htm|periodical=Pagewise|title=Florence King hates everyone, while readers love her|accessdate=November 23, 2007| |
In ''Confessions'', King says she had relationships with both men and women during college: one woman she fell in love with was killed in a car crash. This relationship was detailed in ''Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady''.<ref name="wittmann">{{citation|last=Wittmann|first=Kelly|url=http://nhnh.essortment.com/florenceking_rzkm.htm|periodical=Pagewise|title=Florence King hates everyone, while readers love her|accessdate=November 23, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304231816/http://nhnh.essortment.com/florenceking_rzkm.htm|archivedate=March 4, 2007}}</ref> She jokingly described herself as a "conservative [[lesbian]] [[feminist]]" and has been referred to as the "World's Funniest [[bisexual|Bi-Sexual]]-Republican."<ref name="nichols">{{citation|first=Jack|last=Nichols|year=1997|url=http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/people/020397pe.htm|title=Florence King: World's Funniest Bi-Sexual-Republican|accessdate=February 16, 2007|archive-date=July 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716225219/http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/people/020397pe.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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King later expressed regret at revealing her [[bisexuality]], saying she did not want to be part of the "gay liberation movement" and embraced the concepts of "[[spinster]]hood" and "the [[old maid]]."<ref name="king71993">{{citation|title=Spinsterhood is powerful|periodical=[[National Review]]|date=July 19, 1993|first=Florence|last=King}}</ref> |
King later expressed regret at revealing her [[bisexuality]], saying she did not want to be part of the "gay liberation movement" and embraced the concepts of "[[spinster]]hood" and "the [[old maid]]."<ref name="king71993">{{citation|title=Spinsterhood is powerful|periodical=[[National Review]]|date=July 19, 1993|first=Florence|last=King}}</ref> |
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In 1995, King publicly accused the writer [[Molly Ivins]] of [[plagiarism|plagiarizing]] her work.<ref name="king91995">{{citation|first=Florence|last=King|date=September–October 1995|url=http://www.ew.com/article/1995/11/24/molly-ivins-plagiarist|title=Molly Ivins-Florence King: plagiarism claims|accessdate=January 8, 2016}}</ref> Ivins publicly acknowledged and apologized for her error in an exchange of letters in the next issue of that magazine, which may be found quoted in an account of the controversy.<ref>[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003155.html Molly Ivins apologizes to Florence King for inadvertent plagiarism], upenn.edu; accessed January 8, 2016.</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19950823&id=6OkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zgcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4583,4851278&hl=en Florence King accuses Molly Ivins of plagiarism via google.com]; accessed January 8, 2016.</ref> |
In 1995, King publicly accused the writer [[Molly Ivins]] of [[plagiarism|plagiarizing]] her work.<ref name="king91995">{{citation|first=Florence|last=King|date=September–October 1995|url=http://www.ew.com/article/1995/11/24/molly-ivins-plagiarist|title=Molly Ivins-Florence King: plagiarism claims|accessdate=January 8, 2016}}</ref> Ivins publicly acknowledged and apologized for her error in an exchange of letters in the next issue of that magazine, which may be found quoted in an account of the controversy.<ref>[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003155.html Molly Ivins apologizes to Florence King for inadvertent plagiarism], upenn.edu; accessed January 8, 2016.</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19950823&id=6OkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zgcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4583,4851278&hl=en Florence King accuses Molly Ivins of plagiarism via google.com]; accessed January 8, 2016.</ref> |
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King, who lived in [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] in the later years of her life, retired in 2002 (at which time ''[[National Review]]'' published an anthology of her columns |
King, who lived in [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] in the later years of her life, retired in 2002 (at which time ''[[National Review]]'' published an anthology of her columns titled ''STET, Damnit!''), but resumed writing a monthly column for ''National Review'' in 2006, titled in 2007 "The Bent Pin". A selection of her book reviews and articles was released under the title ''Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again'' in October 2006.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/author/florence-king Florence King profile], ''National Review''. Accessed January 8, 2016.</ref> |
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*{{cite book|title=Southern Ladies and Gentlemen|date=1975|location=New York|publisher=Stein and Day|isbn=978-0-812-81773-7}} |
*{{cite book|title=Southern Ladies and Gentlemen|url=https://archive.org/details/southernladiesge00king|url-access=registration|date=1975|location=New York|publisher=Stein and Day|isbn=978-0-812-81773-7}} |
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*{{cite book|title=WASP, Where Is Thy Sting?|date=1977|location=New York|publisher=Stein and Day|isbn=978-0-812-82166-6}} |
*{{cite book|title=WASP, Where Is Thy Sting?|date=1977|location=New York|publisher=Stein and Day|isbn=978-0-812-82166-6}} |
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*{{cite book|title=The Barbarian Princess|date=1978|location=New York|publisher=Berkeley Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-425-03701-0}} (fiction - writing as Laura Buchanan) |
*{{cite book|title=The Barbarian Princess|date=1978|location=New York|publisher=Berkeley Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-425-03701-0|url=https://archive.org/details/barbarianprinces00flor}} (fiction - writing as Laura Buchanan) |
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*{{cite book|title=He: An Irreverent Look at the American Male|date=1978|location=New York|publisher=Stein and Day|isbn=978-0-812-82513-8}} |
*{{cite book|title=He: An Irreverent Look at the American Male|date=1978|location=New York|publisher=Stein and Day|isbn=978-0-812-82513-8|url=https://archive.org/details/heirreverentlook00king}} |
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*{{cite book|title=When Sisterhood was in Flower|date=1982|location=New York|publisher=Viking Adult|isbn=978-0-670-75998-9}} (fiction) |
*{{cite book|title=When Sisterhood was in Flower|date=1982|location=New York|publisher=Viking Adult|isbn=978-0-670-75998-9}} (fiction) |
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*{{cite book|title=Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady|date=1985|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-16215-3}} |
*{{cite book|title=Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady|date=1985|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-16215-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/confessionsoffai0000king}} |
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*{{cite book|title=Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye|date=1989|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-02646-2}} |
*{{cite book|title=Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye|date=1989|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-02646-2|url=https://archive.org/details/reflectionsinjau00king}} |
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*{{cite book|title=Lump It or Leave It|date=1990|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-04343-8}} |
*{{cite book|title=Lump It or Leave It|url=https://archive.org/details/lumpitorleaveit00king|url-access=registration|date=1990|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-04343-8}} |
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*{{cite book|title=With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy|date=1992|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-07124-0}} |
*{{cite book|title=With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy|date=1992|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-07124-0}} |
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*{{cite book|title=The Florence King Reader|date=1995|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-11789-4}} (anthology) |
*{{cite book|title=The Florence King Reader|date=1995|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-11789-4}} (anthology) |
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Born | Florence Virginia King January 5, 1936 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Died | January 6, 2016 Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S. | (aged 80)
Education | American University |
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Florence Virginia King (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist.
While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King's later work was published in National Review. Until her retirement in 2002, her column in National Review, "The Misanthrope's Corner", was known for "serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean", as the magazine put it. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for National Review titled "The Bent Pin."
King was a traditionalist conservative, but not a "movement conservative," and she objected to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right.[1] She was an active Episcopalian (though she often referred to her agnosticism),[1] a member of Phi Alpha Theta, and a monarchist.[citation needed]
Early life
[edit]King was born January 5, 1936[2] in Washington, D.C., to an American mother, Louise Cora (née Ruding) King, and a British father, Herbert Frederick King. She grew up in the District with her parents, her maternal grandmother, and her grandmother's maid. Each of these people influenced her development as a person. In particular, her grandmother required high standards of behavior from her, referring to the family as descendants of Virginia's colonial elite. In many of her writings, King often referred to the comical contradictions between the material reality of her lower middle class upbringing and the snobbish behavior of her grandmother.[3]
In 1957, King received her BA in history from American University in Washington D.C., where she was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta. She attended the University of Mississippi as a graduate student, but did not complete her M.A. degree after discovering she could make a living as a writer.[4]
Career
[edit]King had several occupations before she began writing as a career. In the mid-1950s, she was a history teacher in Suitland, Maryland. Later in the decade, she was a file clerk at the National Association of Realtors. From 1964 to 1967, King was a feature writer for the Raleigh News and Observer. While at the newspaper, King received the North Carolina Press Woman Award for reporting.[5]
The majority of King's works under her own name have been non-fiction essays. She also wrote a historical romance novel, Barbarian Princess, under the pseudonym Laura Buchanan. King also admitted to having written numerous pornographic stories, pulp paperback books and erotica under various pseudonyms. She gained national attention with her column "The Misanthrope's Corner" in National Review, a conservative magazine of political and social commentary. She also wrote numerous articles for The American Enterprise. Her first book published under her own name was 1975's Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. The work provides a humorous guide to the South for "Yankees". Her most popular book, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1985), is a semi-autobiographical work focusing on, among other things, her grandmother's attempts to mold King into a "Southern lady".[6]
In Confessions, King says she had relationships with both men and women during college: one woman she fell in love with was killed in a car crash. This relationship was detailed in Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.[7] She jokingly described herself as a "conservative lesbian feminist" and has been referred to as the "World's Funniest Bi-Sexual-Republican."[8]
King later expressed regret at revealing her bisexuality, saying she did not want to be part of the "gay liberation movement" and embraced the concepts of "spinsterhood" and "the old maid."[9]
In 1995, King publicly accused the writer Molly Ivins of plagiarizing her work.[10] Ivins publicly acknowledged and apologized for her error in an exchange of letters in the next issue of that magazine, which may be found quoted in an account of the controversy.[11][12]
King, who lived in Fredericksburg, Virginia in the later years of her life, retired in 2002 (at which time National Review published an anthology of her columns titled STET, Damnit!), but resumed writing a monthly column for National Review in 2006, titled in 2007 "The Bent Pin". A selection of her book reviews and articles was released under the title Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again in October 2006.[13]
Death
[edit]Florence King died on January 6, 2016, one day after her 80th birthday, from heart and pulmonary-related diseases.[2][14]
Works
[edit]- Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. New York: Stein and Day. 1975. ISBN 978-0-812-81773-7.
- WASP, Where Is Thy Sting?. New York: Stein and Day. 1977. ISBN 978-0-812-82166-6.
- The Barbarian Princess. New York: Berkeley Publishing Group. 1978. ISBN 978-0-425-03701-0. (fiction - writing as Laura Buchanan)
- He: An Irreverent Look at the American Male. New York: Stein and Day. 1978. ISBN 978-0-812-82513-8.
- When Sisterhood was in Flower. New York: Viking Adult. 1982. ISBN 978-0-670-75998-9. (fiction)
- Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-312-16215-3.
- Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-312-02646-2.
- Lump It or Leave It. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-312-04343-8.
- With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-312-07124-0.
- The Florence King Reader. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-312-11789-4. (anthology)
- STET, Damnit!: The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002. New York: National Review Books. 2003. ISBN 978-0-962-78416-3.
- Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-933-85916-3.
- Withering Slights : National Review's "The Bent Pin" collection, 2007 to 2012. New York, NY: National Review. 2014. ISBN 978-0-9847650-3-4.
References
[edit]- ^ a b King, Florence (March 9, 1998), "Misanthrope's Corner", National Review, retrieved November 23, 2007
- ^ a b Schudel, Matt (January 7, 2016). "Florence King, acerbic conservative writer, dies at 80". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
- ^ King, Florence. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. New York: Stein and Day, 1985 (see chapters 1 and 2).
- ^ Fox, Margalit (January 9, 2016). "Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
- ^ Florence King: The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project, 2002, archived from the original on February 19, 2007, retrieved February 16, 2007
- ^ Barbara, Hall (February 3, 2016). "Remembering Florence King: A Tribute to Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady". publicbooks.org. Public Books. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
- ^ Wittmann, Kelly, "Florence King hates everyone, while readers love her", Pagewise, archived from the original on March 4, 2007, retrieved November 23, 2007
- ^ Nichols, Jack (1997), Florence King: World's Funniest Bi-Sexual-Republican, archived from the original on July 16, 2012, retrieved February 16, 2007
- ^ King, Florence (July 19, 1993), "Spinsterhood is powerful", National Review
- ^ King, Florence (September–October 1995), Molly Ivins-Florence King: plagiarism claims, retrieved January 8, 2016
- ^ Molly Ivins apologizes to Florence King for inadvertent plagiarism, upenn.edu; accessed January 8, 2016.
- ^ Florence King accuses Molly Ivins of plagiarism via google.com; accessed January 8, 2016.
- ^ Florence King profile, National Review. Accessed January 8, 2016.
- ^ Fowler, Jack (January 6, 2016). "Rest in peace, Florence". National Review. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
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