Dave King

Novelist to Read from Critically Acclaimed Debut Novel

Gill, Mass. -- Award-winning author Dave King ’73, whose debut novel The Ha-Ha was published in 2005 to critical acclaim, will do a public reading from his book January 16 at 6:45 p.m. in the Rhodes Room on the Mount Hermon campus in Gill, Mass. King will be Northfield Mount Hermon School’s writer-in-residence from January 15 to 18 when he will meet with interested readers and writers and teach his book to as many classes as time allows.

King’s story about Howard, a man who lost his ability to speak during the Vietnam War, has been called “a very fine debut novel….a very skilled first novel, a book full of deep feeling rendered with light, sure strokes,” by Time. The New York Times had this to say about the book: “… The Ha-Ha is full of emotional truth and establishes King as a writer of consequence.”

“I'm extraordinarily pleased to be doing this,” King said about spending time at the school. “… [M]y interest in writing is really anchored in the early training I received at NMH.”

King, who also is a painter, lives in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, NY.

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