A.S. King was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania. After earning a degree in photography from The Art Institute of Philadelphia, she moved to Dublin, Ireland where she swore off television and started writing novels.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Walt Whitman, Tom Robbins, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Ayn Rand, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Barbara Kingsolver, John Irving, Joseph Heller, and many others.
