Charles King
Author and Georgetown professor
Charles King teaches international affairs at Georgetown University. He wrote Gods of the Upper Air, a New York Times-bestselling history.
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American Born 1967 in the United States
About Charles King
Charles King (born 1967) is an American academic and author. He is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, and he has also served as chairman of the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. King comes from the Ozark Mountains. He read history and politics at the University of Arkansas, then went on to Oxford University as a British Marshall Scholar. Gods of the Upper Air (2019) looks at how ideas about race and gender were remade in the early 1900s. It took the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include Midnight at the Pera Palace, about the birth of modern Istanbul, and Odessa, which won a National Jewish Book Award.