David King

 David King is the author of five books, including Death in the City of Light (New York Times bestseller) and Six Days in August (SXSW SX Speaker Series Best Book of 2023). His book, The Trial of Adolf Hitler, was a longlisted finalist for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize in London and the Cundill History Prize in Montreal. His writing has been translated into nearly twenty languages with film rights sold to four major Hollywood studios and production companies.   

He graduated from Cambridge University and then signed with William Morris Endeavor (WME). Once a year, he teaches creative nonfiction in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program at Stanford University. Before becoming a writer, he taught in the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky and spent a half-dozen years in Europe. He lives in the Bluegrass region, where he is working on his next project, which combines his longtime interests in travel, true crime, and modern history.