Alexander King papers, 1953-1987

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
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: C. J. Bulliet's Venus Castina: Impersonators, Celestial and Human. New York: Covici, Friede Joseph Moncure March's The Set Up. New York: Covici, Friede Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones. New York: Boni & Liveright François Villon's The Complete Works of François Villon. New York: Covici, Friede Published: The Gospel of the Goat, 30 lithographs. n.p. An Interpretation, a Credo and Ten Drawings. n.p.
1929	Illustrated: Claude Farrère's Black Opium. New York: N. L. Brown Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. New York: Horace Liveright François Rabelais's All the Extant Works of François Rabelais. New York: Covici, Friede William B. Seabrook's The Magic Island. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. Tobias George Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. New York: John Day Co. Jonathan Swift's The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver. New York: Limited Editions Club
1930	Illustrated: Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô; a Story of Ancient Carthage. New York: Modern Library Anatole France's At the Sign of the Queen Pédanque. New York: Illustrated Editions Co. Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. New York: Horace Liveright Ovid's The Love Books of Ovid. Paterson, N.J.: Alexander Hamilton Press Hickman Powell's The Last Paradise. New York: Cape and Smith
1931	Illustrated: Giovanni Boccaccio's Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love. New York: Illustrated Editions Co. Daniel Defoe's The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. New York: Hogarth Press Hendrik De Leeuw's Crossroads of the Java Sea. New York: J. Cape & H. Smith Henry Fielding's Tom Jones--The History of a Foundling. New York: Limited Editions Club Charles Fort's Lo. n.p. Art consultant, Linweave Paper Association's limited edition broadside collection (King did most of the illustrations under various pseudonyms).
1932	Illustrated: Petronius Arbiter's The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter in the Translation Attributed to Oscar Wilde. New York: Hogarth Press Charles Dickens's The Bloomsbury Christening. West Springfield, Mass.: J. H. Bordeaux Co.
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.