Difference between revisions of "Hal King"
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Long-term resident of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]] | Long-term resident of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]] | ||
| death_date=October 15, 2010 (aged 65) | | death_date=October 15, 2010 (aged 65) | ||
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| nationality=[[United States|American]] | | nationality=[[United States|American]] | ||
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| religion=[[United Methodist] | | religion=[[United Methodist] | ||
| spouse=Elaine Tucker King (divorced) | | spouse=Elaine Tucker King (divorced) | ||
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Grandson: Elijah King<br> | Grandson: Elijah King<br> | ||
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'''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.'' | '''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.'' | ||
Revision as of 00:09, October 23, 2019
{{Infobox person
| name=Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr.
(Journalist and suspense novelist)
| birth_date=February 27, 1945
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
Long-term resident of Shreveport, Louisiana
| death_date=October 15, 2010 (aged 65)
| death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana
| nationality=American
| religion=[[United Methodist]
| spouse=Elaine Tucker King (divorced)
| children=Harold "Trey" King, III, and wife Jenna Fontenot King
Grandson: Elijah King
Parents:
Harold, Sr., and Anne M. King
Alma mater:
University of Oklahoma
}}
Harold Raymond King, Jr. (February 27, 1945 – October 15, 2010), also known as Hal King, was an American author and journalist known for his 1975 novel Paradigm Red,[1] which became the 1977 NBC television film, Red Alert.
The film version of the novel, made at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, stars[William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau,and Ralph Waite (1928-2014), 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.[2] ==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.[3] ==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,"[4] prompted Publishers Weekly to name King in 1979 "the crown prince of suspense."[3] Shelkagari is a story about the search in the Himalayas for a lost diamond that purportedly belonged to Alexander the Great.[5]
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.[5] ==Death== King had been living in Grand Rapids, Michigan,[6] writing his most recent novels[5] prior to the onslaught of cancer, which claimed his life at the age of 65 after an extended illness.[3] 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.[3] ==References==
- ↑ Paradigm Red. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, ISBN 0-672-52051-6. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.
- ↑ Red Alert. Internet Movie Database]. Retrieved on October 22, 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr., obituary. The Shreveport Times (October 17, 2010). Retrieved on October 31, 2010.
- ↑ Closing Ceremonies. Coward, McCannan & Geoghegan, 1979, ISBN 0-698-10950-3. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Novels by Harold King. halking.com. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.
- ↑ People Search and Background Check, Internet