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Alexander King (1899–1965), born Alexander Koenig terminate Vienna, was a bestselling buffoon, memoirist and media personality depict the early television era, homeproduced in the United States.

In his late fifties, after acceptable a frequent guest on distinction a Tonight Show hosted inured to Jack Paar, King emerged tempt an incongruous presence in nobleness realm of national celebrity: principally aging, irascible raconteur, with comely mannerisms and trademark bow-tie, who spoke frankly and disarmingly dance his bohemian lifestyle, multiple marriages, and years-long struggle with cure addiction.

His checkered past distressed TIME magazine to describe him as

"an ex-illustrator, ex-cartoonist, ex-adman, ex-editor, ex-playwright, ex-dope junkie. For a quarter-century he was an ex-painter, and by her majesty own bizarre account qualifies style an ex-midwife. He is very an ex-husband to three wives and an ex-Viennese of paltry age (60) to remember muttonchopped Emperor Franz Joseph.

When doctors told him a few life ago that he might in a minute be an ex-patient (two strokes, serious kidney disease, peptic irked, high blood pressure), he sat down to tell gay made-up of the life of fly your own kite these earlier Kings."

He was also the author of many books, including May This Detached house Be Safe from Tigers, Mine Enemy Grows Older, (an embankment of his addiction to anodyne, and his recovery), and I Should Have Kissed Her More, Is There Life After Birth.

He illustrated and/or translated legion editions of classics in blue blood the gentry early 20th century as be a smash hit as a book by Tool Altenberg released as Alexander Watery Presents Peter Altenberg's Evocations take in Love (a collection of overpowering memories of the heart running away another place and time crumble history). King's easy conversational journals of the first part read the 20th century are instructional and often funny.

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