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{{Infobox person
| name= Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr.<br>
(Journalist and suspense novelist)
| birth_date=February 27, 1945
| birth_place = Place of birth missing<br>
Long-term resident of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=October 15, 2010 (aged 65)
| death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana]
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[University of Oklahoma]]
| religion=[[United Methodist]
| spouse=Elaine Tucker King (divorced)
| children=Harold "Trey" King, III, and wife Jenna Fontenot King<br>
Grandson: Elijah King<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Harold, Sr., and Anne M. King
}}
'''Harold Raymond King, Jr.''' (February 27, 1945 – October 15, 2010), also known as '''Hal King''', was an [[United States|American]] author and [[journalist]] known for his 1975 [[novel]] ''Paradigm Red,''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/harold-king/paradigm-red.htm|title=Paradigm Red|publisher=[[Indianapolis, Indiana]]: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, ISBN 0-672-52051-6|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref> which became the 1977 [[NBC]] [[television]] film, ''Red Alert.''
The film version of the novel, made at the [[Johnson Space Center]] in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], stars[William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau] and [[Ralph Waite]], then at the peak of his success on [[CBS]]'s ''[[The Waltons]].'' In the story line, a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives false information of a [[radiation]] leak. The crew is trapped inside the compound.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076605/|title=''Red Alert''|publisher=Internet Movie Database]|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref>
==Background==
King was born to Anne M. King of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], and the [[United States Air Force]] Lieutenant Colonel Harold King, Sr. (1924–2000), formerly of [[Michigan]]. King's obituary does not give his place of birth or rearing, high school, or the college granting his undergraduate degree. He served in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in the [[Vietnam War]]. He received a [[Master of Arts]] degree in professional writing from the [[University of Oklahoma]] at Norman, [[Oklahoma]]. In the 1970s, he was an award-winning [[investigative reporter]] for ''The Shreveport Times.'' His former wife, Elaine Tucker King (born 1949), was also on the newspaper staff. King taught an undergraduate writing course at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-raymond-king-hal&pid=146006899|title=Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr., obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=October 17, 2010|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref>
==Novels==
In addition to ''Paradigm Red,'' King authored the novels ''Four Days'' (a [[Cold War]] thriller), ''Taskmaster,'' ''Code of Arms,'' and ''The Hahnemann Sequela.'' And under the pen name "Brian Harris" he novelized the miniseries ''World War III.''
His best-selling ''Closing Ceremonies,'' with the streamer "Nazi Evil Lives On . . . And a Hunt to the Death Begins,"<ref name=closing>{{cite book|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/harold-king/closing-ceremonies.htm|title=Closing Ceremonies|publisher=Coward, McCannan & Geoghegan, 1979, ISBN 0-698-10950-3|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref> prompted ''Publishers Weekly'' to name King in 1979 "the crown prince of suspense."<ref name=obit/>
''Shelkagari'' is a story about the search in the [[Himalayas]] for a lost [[diamond]] that purportedly belonged to [[Alexander the Great]].<ref name=king>{{cite web|url=http://www.halking.com/novels.html|title=Novels by Harold King|publisher=halking.com|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref>
King's writing topics range from Himalayan subculture to disaster from nuclear reactors. In addition to his writing, King had been a taxi driver and a construction worker.<ref name=king/>
==Death==
King had been living in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], Michigan,<ref>People Search and Background Check, Internet</ref> writing his most recent novels<ref name=king/> prior to the onslaught of [[cancer]], which claimed his life at the age of 65 after an extended illness.<ref name=obit/>
King is survived by his son, Harold King III, ( born 1978), and grandson, Elijah King (born 2000), both of [[Lafayette]]; three brothers Richard Allen King (born 1947) of Shreveport, David M. King of Sarasota, [[Florida]], and Mark S. King of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and two sisters, Linda Conway and Nancy Lanzillotti and husband, David Lanzillotti, all of [[Bossier City]], Louisiana.
Services were held on October 21, 2010, at the Couch Parlor of the large First [[United Methodist]] Church at the end of Texas Avenue in downtown Shreveport.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Harold}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Michigan]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Novelists]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]
[[Category:United States Marine Corps]]
| name= Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr.<br>
(Journalist and suspense novelist)
| birth_date=February 27, 1945
| birth_place = Place of birth missing<br>
Long-term resident of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=October 15, 2010 (aged 65)
| death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana]
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[University of Oklahoma]]
| religion=[[United Methodist]
| spouse=Elaine Tucker King (divorced)
| children=Harold "Trey" King, III, and wife Jenna Fontenot King<br>
Grandson: Elijah King<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Harold, Sr., and Anne M. King
}}
'''Harold Raymond King, Jr.''' (February 27, 1945 – October 15, 2010), also known as '''Hal King''', was an [[United States|American]] author and [[journalist]] known for his 1975 [[novel]] ''Paradigm Red,''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/harold-king/paradigm-red.htm|title=Paradigm Red|publisher=[[Indianapolis, Indiana]]: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, ISBN 0-672-52051-6|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref> which became the 1977 [[NBC]] [[television]] film, ''Red Alert.''
The film version of the novel, made at the [[Johnson Space Center]] in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], stars[William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau] and [[Ralph Waite]], then at the peak of his success on [[CBS]]'s ''[[The Waltons]].'' In the story line, a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives false information of a [[radiation]] leak. The crew is trapped inside the compound.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076605/|title=''Red Alert''|publisher=Internet Movie Database]|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref>
==Background==
King was born to Anne M. King of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], and the [[United States Air Force]] Lieutenant Colonel Harold King, Sr. (1924–2000), formerly of [[Michigan]]. King's obituary does not give his place of birth or rearing, high school, or the college granting his undergraduate degree. He served in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in the [[Vietnam War]]. He received a [[Master of Arts]] degree in professional writing from the [[University of Oklahoma]] at Norman, [[Oklahoma]]. In the 1970s, he was an award-winning [[investigative reporter]] for ''The Shreveport Times.'' His former wife, Elaine Tucker King (born 1949), was also on the newspaper staff. King taught an undergraduate writing course at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-raymond-king-hal&pid=146006899|title=Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr., obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=October 17, 2010|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref>
==Novels==
In addition to ''Paradigm Red,'' King authored the novels ''Four Days'' (a [[Cold War]] thriller), ''Taskmaster,'' ''Code of Arms,'' and ''The Hahnemann Sequela.'' And under the pen name "Brian Harris" he novelized the miniseries ''World War III.''
His best-selling ''Closing Ceremonies,'' with the streamer "Nazi Evil Lives On . . . And a Hunt to the Death Begins,"<ref name=closing>{{cite book|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/harold-king/closing-ceremonies.htm|title=Closing Ceremonies|publisher=Coward, McCannan & Geoghegan, 1979, ISBN 0-698-10950-3|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref> prompted ''Publishers Weekly'' to name King in 1979 "the crown prince of suspense."<ref name=obit/>
''Shelkagari'' is a story about the search in the [[Himalayas]] for a lost [[diamond]] that purportedly belonged to [[Alexander the Great]].<ref name=king>{{cite web|url=http://www.halking.com/novels.html|title=Novels by Harold King|publisher=halking.com|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}</ref>
King's writing topics range from Himalayan subculture to disaster from nuclear reactors. In addition to his writing, King had been a taxi driver and a construction worker.<ref name=king/>
==Death==
King had been living in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], Michigan,<ref>People Search and Background Check, Internet</ref> writing his most recent novels<ref name=king/> prior to the onslaught of [[cancer]], which claimed his life at the age of 65 after an extended illness.<ref name=obit/>
King is survived by his son, Harold King III, ( born 1978), and grandson, Elijah King (born 2000), both of [[Lafayette]]; three brothers Richard Allen King (born 1947) of Shreveport, David M. King of Sarasota, [[Florida]], and Mark S. King of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and two sisters, Linda Conway and Nancy Lanzillotti and husband, David Lanzillotti, all of [[Bossier City]], Louisiana.
Services were held on October 21, 2010, at the Couch Parlor of the large First [[United Methodist]] Church at the end of Texas Avenue in downtown Shreveport.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Harold}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Michigan]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Novelists]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]
[[Category:United States Marine Corps]]