Michael King (1945 - 2004)
Michael King's biography of Janet Frame - Wrestling with the Angel
Publications
King’s output was prodigious. His works include:
- Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century (1972)
- Make It News: how to approach the media (1974)
- Face Value: a study in Maori portraiture (1975)
- Te Ao Hurihuri: aspects of Maoritanga (ed.) (1975)
- Te Puea: a biography (1977)
- Tihe mauri ora: Aspects of Maoritanga (ed.) (1978)
- New Zealand: Its Land and Its People (1979)
- The Collector: a biography of Andreas Reischek (1981}
- Being Maori - John Rangihau (1981)
- New Zealanders at War (1981)
- A Place to Stand: a history of Turangawaewae Marae (1981)
- G.F. von Tempsky, Artist and Adventurer (with Rose Young) (1981)
- New Zealand in Colour (1982)
- Maori: a photographic and social history (1983)
- Whina: a biography of Whina Cooper (l983)
- Te Puea Herangi: from darkness to light (1984)
- Being Pakeha: an Encounter with New Zealand and the Maori renaissance (1985)
- Auckland (with Eric Taylor) (1985)
- Kawe korero: a guide to reporting Maori activities (1985)
- Death of the Rainbow Warrior (1986)
- New Zealand (1987)
- After the War: New Zealand since 1945 (1988)
- One of the boys?: changing views of masculinity in New Zealand (1988)
- Apirana Ngata: e tipu e rea (l988)
- Moriori: a people rediscovered (1989)
- A Land Apart: the Chatham Islands of New Zealand (1990)
- Pakeha: the quest for identity in New Zealand (1991)
- Hidden Places: a memoir in journalism (1992)
- Coromandel (1993)
- Frank Sargeson: a life (1995)
- God's Farthest Outpost: a history of Catholics in New Zealand (1997)
- Nga iwi o te motu: one thousand years of Maori history (1997)
- Being Pakeha Now: reflections and recollections of a white native (1999)
- Wrestling with the Angel: a life of Janet Frame (2000)
- Tomorrow Comes the Song: a life of Peter Fraser (with Michael Bassett) (2000)
- Tread Softly for you tread on my life: new & collected writings (2001)
- An Inward Sun: the world of Janet Frame (2002)
- At the Edge of Memory: a family story (2002)
- The Penguin History of New Zealand (2003)