Michael King, OBE (December 15, 1945 – March 30, 2004) was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer.
Educated at Sacred Heart College in Auckland and St Patrick's College at Silverstream (Wellington), King went on to study history at Victoria University of Wellington before working as a journalist at the Waikato Times newspaper in Hamilton.
King earned degrees in history at Victoria, (BA 1967) and the University of Waikato (MA 1968)...
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Michael King, OBE (December 15, 1945 – March 30, 2004) was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer.
Educated at Sacred Heart College in Auckland and St Patrick's College at Silverstream (Wellington), King went on to study history at Victoria University of Wellington before working as a journalist at the Waikato Times newspaper in Hamilton.
King earned degrees in history at Victoria, (BA 1967) and the University of Waikato (MA 1968), and gained his Ph.D. at Waikato (1978). In 1997 he received an honorary D.Litt. at Victoria.
Although not Māori himself, King was well-known for his knowledge of Māori culture and history. The Listener, one of New Zealand's most popular weekly magazines, dubbed King "the people's historian" for his efforts to write about and for the local populous. As a biographer, King published works on Te Puea Herangi, Whina Cooper, Frank Sargeson (1995) and Janet Frame (2000). As an historian, King's works include Being Pakeha (1985), Moriori (1989), and...
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