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:''Are you looking for Florence King, the first female patent attorney in America?'' Florence Virginia King (born January 5, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist and columnist. While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King's later work has been published in ''National Review''. Until her retirement in 2002, her column in ''National Review'', "The Misanthrope's Corner", was known for "serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean", as the magazine put it. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for ''National Review'' entitled "The Bent Pin." King is a traditionalist conservative, but not a "movement conservative," and she objects to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right.〔 〕〔 King labels herself a "misanthrope". She is an active Episcopalian (though she often refers to her agnosticism), a member of Phi Alpha Theta, and a monarchist. ==Early life== Born in Washington, D.C. to a British father and an American mother (Herbert Frederick King and Louise Ruding King), King grew up in the District with her parents, a brother, her maternal grandmother and her grandmother's maid. Each of these people influenced her development as a person. In particular, her grandmother required high standards of behavior from her, referring to the family as descendants of Virginia's colonial elite. In many of her writings, King often refers to the comical contradictions between the material reality of her lower middle class upbringing and the snobbish behavior of her grandmother.〔King, Florence. ''Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady''. New York: Stein and Day, 1985. (See chapters 1 and 2.)〕 In 1957, King received her B.A. in history from American University in Washington D.C., where she was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta. She also attended the University of Mississippi as a graduate student, but did not complete her M.A. degree after discovering she could make a living as a writer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florence King」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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