Florence Virginia King was 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 was 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 was a traditionalist conservative, but not a "movement conservative," and she objected to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right. She was an active Episcopalian , a member of Phi Alpha Theta, and a monarchist.
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"Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
Lump It or Leave It (1990)
"Does Your Child Taste Salty?", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989)
“Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.”
The Florence King Reader (1995)
On her first day of kindergarten, from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1990)
"From Captain Marvel to Captain Valium", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989)
