Ross King was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Eton College, where he was captain of the cricket team. He went on to Oxford University, where he graduated with a first-class degree in Modern History. His career as a journalist began at the London Evening Standard, where he worked for two years. He then moved to The Daily Telegraph as a features editor
His first novel, The Rain God, was published in 1980. Since then he has written more than thirty novels and several non-fiction works on English history and on the English countryside.
And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.Ross King
That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.Ross King
