Edward King (author)

Edward King (1848–1896) was an American author and journalist born in Middlefield, Massachusetts. His 1875 travel memoir The Great South is an important historical document with extensive descriptions of African American church music and other subjects. Each section of The Great South was originally published in an issue of Scribner's Magazine.

For a time he was a correspondent in Paris on behalf of American periodicals. During the Russo-Turkish War he was a correspondent in the Balkans with the Russian army.

His Journal “The Great South; A Record of Journeys” published in 1875 is to be seen as one of the few great primary resources, available to the present day. It's narrative writing style engulfs topics such as the economical state of the south after the war as well as social aspects after the emancipation.

Publications

Europe in Storm and Calm (1885)

• My Paris: French Character Sketches (1868)
• Kentucky's Love; or, Roughing it Around Paris (1873)
• The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland (1875)
• French Political Leaders (1876)
• Echoes from the Orient: with miscellaneous poems (1880)
• The Gentle Savage; a novel (1883)
• Europe in Storm and Calm: Twenty Years' Experiences and Reminiscences of an American Journalist (1885)
• The Golden Spike; a fantasy in prose (1886)
• A Venetian Lover (1887)
• Texas: 1874 (?)
• Joseph Zalmonah : a novel (1894)
• Under the red flag; or, The adventures of two American boys in the days of the commune (1895)

References

• Darden, Robert (1996). People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826417523.

External links

• Works by or about Edward King at the Internet Archive
• The Great South, full text (HTML)