Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
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1900 | Born Alexander Koenig (or Konig), Vienna, Austria |
circa 1913 | Immigrated with parents to New York, N.Y. |
1917 | Illustrator, New York Sunday World magazine section Married Nettie [?] (divorced 19[?]) |
1928 | Illustrated:
Published:
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1929 | Illustrated:
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1930 | Illustrated:
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1931 | Illustrated:
Art consultant, Linweave Paper Association's limited edition broadside collection (King did most of the illustrations under various pseudonyms). |
1932 | Illustrated:
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1932-1933 | Editor-in-chief, Americana magazine |
1933 | Illustrated Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. 3 vols. New York: Limited Editions Club |
circa 1933-1936 | Married Annis Grover (divorced 19[?]) Assistant to Frank Crowninshield, Vanity Fair magazine |
1934 | Published Peace is Hell, 10 lithographs. n.p. |
1937-1940 | Associate editor, Life magazine |
1938 | Investigated for Life magazine the massacre of Haitians by Dominican army |
1939 | Collaborated with Clare Boothe Luce on her play Margin For Error: A Satirical Melodrama. New York: Random House |
1940-1941 | Managing editor, Stage magazine |
1941 | Collaborated with Chester Erskin on the play Portrait of a Lady |
circa 1942 | Married Marjorie Belle, later known as Marge Champion (divorced 19[?]) |
1945 | Became addicted to morphine while being treated for a kidney ailment |
1951 | Arrested on drug charges and sentenced to the federal narcotics hospital in Lexington, Ky. |
1953 | Married Margie Lou Swett, singer and actress |
1954 | Arrested and returned to Lexington, Ky., for violation of probation and drug abuse treatment |
1957 | Exhibited thirteen paintings at the Chase Gallery, New York, N.Y. |
1958 | Published Mine Enemy Grows Older. New York: Simon and Schuster Published Alex in Wonderland; Six Paintings with Commentary. New York: Shorewood Press Recorded phonograph album "Alexander King Reads from His Bestseller and Other Stories" |
1959, Jan. 2 | First guest appearance on Jack Paar's television show |
1959 | Featured with his wife, Margie, in his own television show "Alex in Wonderland" (New York City's Channel 13) |
1960 | Translated and illustrated Alexander King Presents Peter Altenberg's Evocations of Love. New York: Simon and Schuster Published May This House Be Safe from Tigers. New York: Simon and Schuster Recorded two phonograph albums: "Love and Hisses" and "Comedy Concert" (excerpts from "Love and Hisses") |
1961 | Published I Should Have Kissed Her More. New York: Simon and Schuster |
1962 | Published The Great Ker-plunk. New York: Simon and Schuster (a children's story illustrated by his son, Robin; first published as a short story in 1961 by McCall's magazine) |
1963 | Published Is There a Life After Birth? New York: Simon and Schuster |
1964 | Published Rosa Krawatten: Das Seltsome und Abenteuerliche Leben des Alexander. Wien: P. Zsolnay (German translation of exerpts from Mine Enemy Grows Older) |
1965 | Published Rich Man, Poor Man, Freud and Fruit--Advice to Amorous Ladies. New York: Simon and Schuster Published posthumously Memoirs of a Certain Mouse. New York: McGraw-Hill |
1965, Nov. 16 | Died, New York, N.Y. |