Charles King

Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, chair of the Department of Government, and former faculty chair of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

He lectures widely on global affairs and has worked with broadcast media including CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, the History Channel, and MTV. A native of the Ozark hill country, King studied history and politics at the University of Arkansas and Oxford University, where he was a British Marshall Scholar.

He won the National Jewish Book Award for his novel Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams and the French Prix de Voyage Urbain "Le Figaro-Peninsula Paris" for his novel Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul.