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Michael Patrick King (born September 14, 1954) is an American director, writer, and producer. He is best known for directing and writing for Sex and the City and its film adaptations, and for co-creating the television comedies The Comeback, 2 Broke Girls, and AJ and the Queen. Life and career King was born to a Roman Catholic Irish-American family in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, for three years. In 1975, King moved to New York, did comedy, and wrote plays. He also was a member of a comedy improv group called The Broadway Local which mostly performed at Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. They were considered to be the in-house Improv group there. He eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he found work writing for the television series Murphy Brown, and was nominated for several Emmys. He wrote for the HBO show, The Comeback, as well as for broadcast shows Will & Grace, Good Advice, and Cybill. He has an acting role on the HBO special Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's publicist. He may be best known for his work on the HBO series Sex and the City, which was created by Darren Star. King wrote all the season premieres and finales of Sex and the City (except its pilot, written by Star, and the fifth-season finale, which King co-wrote with Cindy Chupack). He directed the show's film adaptation, and its follow-up, Sex and the City 2. He is featured on The Other Network Writers Room, an audio series for aspiring comedy writers. In 2008, his production company signed a deal with DreamWorks. He is gay, and lives in Greenwich Village. He owns Arcade Productions, a production company. Filmography See also LGBT culture in New York City List of LGBT people from New York City References External links Michael Patrick King at IMDb Archive of the original Sex and the City newspaper columns Un-Cabaret The Other Network Writers Room Michael Patrick King at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. Discover the Patrick King popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Patrick King books.
Best Seller Patrick King Books of 2024
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The Book of Virtues
William J. BennettResponsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop...
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The Life of St. Patrick
J. B. Bury"The Life of St. Patrick" is the first truly authoritative biography of Saint Patrick's life and a well researched study of the times in which he lived in. Saint Patric...
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Rumours Of War
Allan MallinsonPerfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, another engrossing Matthew Hervey adventure from the pen of THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallins...
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Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King
Anupreeta DasFrom the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gatesone of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decadesand an eyeopenin...
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Reading with Patrick
Michelle Kuo“In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”The AtlanticA memoir of the lifech...
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Highliners
William B. McCloskeyHighliners are the elite of the fishing world, the skippers and crews who make the biggest catchessalmon, king crab, halibut, shrimpand deliver them first to the bustling canneries...
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Warrior
Allan MallinsonPerfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, another breathtaking Matthew Hervey adventure from the pen of THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Malli...
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Man Of War
Allan MallinsonPerfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, another engrossing Matthew Hervey adventure from the pen of THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallins...
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Brother Wulf
Joseph DelaneyWhen young novice monk Brother Beowulf is sent to spy on Spook Johnson, he has no idea of the trouble he's about to find himself in. Johnson boasts to Wulf of his battles against d...
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A Call To Arms
Allan MallinsonThe Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, brings us another actionpacked and stirring Matthew Hervey adventure. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Fore...
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Hall of Smoke
H.M. LongEpic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and f...
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Macbeth
Harold BloomFrom Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare’s most complex and compelling antiheroesthe final volume in...
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Dunbar
Edward St AubynA reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most wellread tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic dramaHenry Dunbar, the once allpowerful head of a global...
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Revolution
Megan DeVosTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER.'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTVYou fight, you kill, you steal, you lie.... or you die. As war ...
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Master Assassins
Robert V.S. Redick2018 BookNest Fantasy Awards Finalist for Best Novel “This book has everything I love: Clean, crisp worldbuilding. Characters that live and breathe. A story that teases and surpris...
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Lieutenant Fury
G.S. BeardIf you like Hornblower and Sharpe, you will love this allaction nautical pageturner from much loved author G.S.Beard. You'll feel as if you are in the midst of the action!'If you l...
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Barrow of Winter
H. M. LongThrilling epic fantasy adventures set in the world of HALL OF SMOKE and TEMPLE OF NO GOD, featuring murderous conspiracies, howling icy wastelands and the Children of Winter, for r...
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The Fall of the FBI
Thomas J BakerAn FBI veteran explains how the Mueller–Comey cabal turned the FBI from a “swear to tell the truth” lawenforcement agency to a politicized intelligence organization.Americans have ...
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Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan
Gordon JarvieMystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chose...
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Sidewinders
Robert V.S. RedickTwo brothers flee an army of fanatics across a vast and magical desert in this whiteknuckle sequel to Master Assassins from Robert V.S. Redick, author of The Red Wol...
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Brexit and Ireland
Tony Connelly'Excellent' Sunday TimesBrexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreignpolicy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any ar...
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Peter Abelard & Betty RadiceThe story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless a...
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The Year of Lear
James ShapiroPreeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedi...
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Annihilation
Megan DeVosTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER.'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTVThis is the end of us all.For Hayden and Grace, the threat of w...
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Fake Love
Nova GibsonClear, concise and empowering selfhelp about navigating and healing from narcissistic abuse by Australia's goto specialist counsellorThe love of a narcissist is fake. It's a soulde...
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A Reason to Believe
Governor Deval PatrickNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick, “an inspirational figure guided by optimism and hope who presaged the rise of President Obama”...
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Company Of Spears
Allan MallinsonTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson brings us another adrenalinfuelled, absorbing adventure featuring Matthew Hervey. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell ...
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Playing Dead
Elizabeth GreenwoodA darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bri...
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An Act Of Courage
Allan MallinsonTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson brings us another compelling and deeply atmospheric adventure featuring Matthew Hervey. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cor...
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Patrick
Stephen R. LawheadSlave, soldier, lover, hero, saint,his life mirrored the cataclysmic world into which he was born. His memory will outlast the ages.Born of a noble Welsh family, he is violently to...
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The Beast Awakens
Joseph DelaneyThe first book in a horrifying new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the internationally multimillionselling author of The Spook's Apprentice.They heard shouting, and cries of ...
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The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History
J. B. Bury"The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History" is the first truly authoritative biography of Saint Patrick's life and a well researched study of the times in which ...
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Liberty Is Sweet
Woody HoltonA “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette GordonReed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooke...
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Temple of No God
H.M. LongEpic fantasy followup to HALL OF SMOKE, featuring crumbling empires, secretive cults and godlike powers to be claimed, for readers of Margaret Owen, Brian Staveley, V. E. Schwab an...
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The Basilisk Throne
Greg KeyesMaster and Commander meets A Game of Thrones and Pirates of the Carribean. Rapidpaced high fantasy with allout combat on the high seas, and a canny young woman who faces the hidden...
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Mr Midshipman Fury
G.S. BeardFans of Hornblower and Sharpe will love this captivating and compelling nautical adventure from much loved author G.S.Beard. Guaranteed to stir into life even the most sluggish of ...
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Kubrick
Robert P. Kolker & Nathan AbramsThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most indepth portrait yet of the groundbreaking filmmaker.The ...