(winner of the Somerset Maugham Award) Rod of Incantation (1952) - poems The Dark Glasses (1954) - novel The Firewalkers: a Memoir (1956) (written under the name Frank Cauldwell) The Man on the Rock (1957) - novel The Widow (1957) - novel So Hurt and Humiliated (1959) - short story collection (#1 of 4) The Custom House (1961) - novel The Japanese Umbrella and Other Stories (1964) - short story collection (#2 of 4) The Last of the Pleasure Gardens (1965) - novel The Waves Behind the Boat (1967) - novel Robert de Montesquiou by Philippe Julian (1967) – translator, along with John Haylock The Brighton Belle and Other Stories (1968) - short story collection (#3 of 4) A Domestic Animal (1970) - novel (revised version of the suppressed 1969 edition) Flights (1973) - novel A Game of Patience (1974) - novel The Needle (1975) - novel E.M. Forster and his World (1978) – a biography of the author of A Passage to India and Howards End Act of Darkness (1983) - novel Voices in an Empty Room (1984) - novel Frozen Music (1987) - novella Visiting Cards (1990) - novel Punishments (1989) - novel The Ant Colony (1992) - novel Yesterday Came Suddenly (1993) – autobiography Ash on an old man's sleeve (1996) - novel Dead Letters (1998) - novel The Nick of Time (2002) novel The Sunlight on the Garden (2005) – short story collection (#4 of 4) With My Little Eye (2007) - novel Cold Snap (2009) - novel References External links Francis Henry King Papers along with first addition, and second addition at the Harry Ransom Center "Obituary of Francis King", The Daily Telegraph, 5 July 2011 PEN International Valancourt Books Dedication to Francis King 1923 births 2011 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British conscientious objectors British short story writers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature People educated at Shrewsbury School English LGBT novelists British male novelists British male short story writers 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists 20th-century British short story writers 21st-century British short story writers 20th-century English male writers 21st-century English male writers Presidents of the English Centre of PEN