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Michael King, OBE (15 December 1945 – 30 March 2004) was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including ''The Penguin History of New Zealand'', which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004. ==Life== King was born in Wellington to Eleanor and Commander Lewis King, one of four children. Educated at Sacred Heart College in Auckland and St. Patrick's College, Silverstream, he went on to study history at Victoria University of Wellington before working as a journalist at the Waikato Times newspaper in Hamilton in 1968. King earned degrees in history at Victoria, (BA 1967) and the University of Waikato (MA 1968), and gained his PhD at Waikato (1978). In 1997 he received an honorary DLitt at Victoria. He was Visiting Professor of New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and taught or held fellowships at six other universities. Although not Māori himself,〔The Silence Beyond. R King(daughter). Editor.>〕 King was well known for his knowledge of Māori culture and history. ''New Zealand Listener,'' one of New Zealand's most popular weekly magazines, dubbed King "the people's historian"〔Watkin, Tim. "The People's Historian" ''The Listener'' () Vol 193 No 3335, 10–16 April 2004.〕 for his efforts to write about and for the local populace. As a biographer, King published works on Te Puea Herangi, Whina Cooper, Frank Sargeson (1995) and Janet Frame (2000). As an historian, King's works include ''Being Pākehā'' (1985), ''Moriori'' (1989), and ''The Penguin History of New Zealand'' (July 2003), the latter of which was, by February 2004, into its seventh edition. In all, King wrote, co-wrote and edited more than 30 books on a diverse range of New Zealand topics. He contributed to all five volumes of the ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography''. King was always sensitive to the fact that he was a "Pākehā" writing about the Maori world and always sought to establish close personal relationships with those he wrote about and their ''whanau, hapu'' and ''iwi'' authorities. He believed that all Pākehā had the same right to be called indigenous as Maori and disagreed with claims that only Māori have a spiritual association with mountains, lakes and rivers. He noted a recent tendency in literature to romanticise Maori life and also pointed out that Maori cruelty in the pre-European era was far harsher and less humane than the results of British colonisation.〔Michael King, ''Being Pākehā Now'', Penguin, 2004, pages 234–237.〕 King was a diabetic and had post-polio syndrome. He received six weeks of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for throat cancer discovered in October 2003, which was in remission by 2004. In 1984 he was living with his family in a commune. His wife Ros decided to live with someone else and eventually married them.〔Being Pākehā Now. M. King. Penguin. 2004 P 133.〕 Following King's death, an essay on John Money was posthumously published in an exhibition catalogue for the Eastern Southland Gallery, located in the provincial town of Gore, New Zealand. King had planned to write a full biography on Money, but had lacked funding to do so in his lifetime. He has two children, the filmmaker Jonathan King and novelist Rachael King. 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「Michael King」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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