 His father, Henry T. King, was a U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.His first novel, "The Ha-Ha", was published in 2005 and was named one of the best books of that year by the "Washington Post", the "Christian Science Monitor", and the "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review".The "Ha-Ha" was a finalist for The Book of the Month Club's Best Literary Fiction Award and
the Quill Foundation's award for Best Debut Fiction and was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year (2005).