Ross
King
Ross King was nominated for the 2010 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize for Defiant Spirits. He has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, for The Judgment of Paris and Leonardo and the Last Supper. Born and raised in Canada, King holds degrees from the University of Regina, York University, and University College in London. He now lives near Oxford, England.
Writers & Books
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Ross King and his award-nominated history "Mad Enchantment"
Award History
2016 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water LiliesJury Citation
“Combining his historian’s no-stone-unturned research skills with his novelist’s keen eye for scene and detail, Ross King’s Mad Enchantment unfolds the compelling, little-known story of the creation of one of the world’s most iconic art works. King poignantly captures not only the human drama of one of the world’s greatest artists as he rages against – and towards – his life’s end even as he creates his most ambitious project, but he also seamlessly weaves that personal story into the larger fabric of world and art history.” – 2016 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury (Carolyn Abraham, Stephen Kimber, and Emily Urquhart)2010 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
Works Recognized by WT