Dr King devoted much of the 1990s to literary biography through his books on the lives of Frank Sargeson (1995) and Janet Frame (2000). In 1988, he was awarded an OBE for services to New Zealand Literature.
He won further awards, including a Wattie Book of the Year prize for his book, Moriori, published in 1989. In the 1980s, Dr King also began to write about wider New Zealand history, and his ground-breaking Being Pakeha was the first book to examine the Pakeha ingredients of New Zealand society and culture. He was awarded his doctorate in history by the University of Waikato in 1978. His biographies of Te Puea Herangi and Whina Cooper, and his prize-winning Maori: a Photographic and Social History, were published during those years. For 10 years he concentrated mainly on writing Maori history in partnership with Maori, becoming the first professional historian to work in this field. His television documentary series Tangata Whenua went to air in 1974 and won a Feltex Award in 1975. His first book, a collaboration with Marti Friedlander on Maori tattooing, was published in 1972. He left Hamilton to teach journalism at Wellington Polytechnic in 1972 and became a full-time writer in 1975. He then moved to Hamilton to work for the Waikato Times and to study for an MA at the University of Waikato. He majored in history and English at Victoria University and graduated with a BA in 1967. He grew up on the Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour and was educated at Catholic schools in Plimmerton, Auckland and the Hutt Valley. Michael King was born in Wellington on December 15, 1945. 8.55am Historian, journalist, teacher and author Michael King died with his wife Maria Jungowska in a fiery car crash near Maramarua,south of Auckland, yesterday.
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