Wesley King

Wesley King is a highly acclaimed Canadian author, best known for his science fiction and fantasy novels that feature teenage protagonists with extraordinary abilities. Over a relatively short period of time, King has gained significant success and recognition for his work, receiving several awards and accolades.

King's novels have gained a wide following, and his work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the prestigious American Library Association's Schneider Family Book Award for his novel "OCDaniel," which deals with the challenges of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In addition to his success in the literary world, King's books have also been optioned for possible movie adaptations, further cementing his status as a rising star in the world of young adult fiction.

Wesley King is the author of eleven novels, including the popular "Vindico Series" and the "Wizenard Series" which he co-authored with basketball legend Kobe Bryant. His work has been praised for its creativity, humor, and relatable characters, making him a favorite among readers of all ages.

In addition to his writing, King is also an avid sailor and has embarked on a journey to travel around the world on a 1967 sailboat. This adventurous spirit is reflected in his writing, which often features themes of exploration, discovery, and self-reliance. Despite his busy schedule, King remains dedicated to his craft and continues to produce captivating and engaging stories that resonate with readers around the world.
The Vindico Books
# Title Year
1 The Vindico 2012
2 The Feros 2013
Dragons vs. Drones Books
# Title Year
1 Dragons vs. Drones 2016
2 Enemy of the Realm 2017
OCDaniel Books
# Title Year
1 OCDaniel 2016
2 Sara and the Search for Normal 2020
Wizenard Books (with Kobe Bryant)
# Title Year
1 Training Camp 2019
2 Season One 2020
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 The Incredible Space Raiders from Space! 2015
2 Laura Monster Crusher 2017
3 A World Below 2018
4 Hello 2021
5 Butt Sandwich & Tree 2022
SUNY Books Horizons of Cinema
# Title Year
1 Cavell on Film 2005
2 Rebel Without a Cause: Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork 2005
3 The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli 2006
4 Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium 2007
5 Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema 2007
6 Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work beyond Hollywood 2008
7 Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun 2008
8 Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge 2009
9 Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch 2009
10 Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel 2010
11 Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon 2011
12 Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter 2011
13 Hitchcock, Second Edition: The Murderous Gaze 2012
14 Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western 2012
15 Hollywood's New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese 2013
16 Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema 2014
17 B Is for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value 2014
18 Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film 2014
19 Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department, 1967-1977 2015
20 Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity 2016
21 Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics 2016
22 Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity 2016
23 Doing Time: Temporality, Hermeneutics, and Contemporary Cinema 2016
24 Looking with Robert Gardner 2016
25 Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image 2016
26 John Huston as Adaptor 2017
27 Hitchcock's Moral Gaze 2017
28 American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray 2017
29 Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, Peter Watkins, and Lars von Trier 2017
30 Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema 2017
31 Passionate Detachments: Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967-1974 2017
32 Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film 2017
33 Rx Hollywood: Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s 2018
34 Queer Art Camp Superstar: Decoding the Cinematic Cyberworld of Ryan Trecartin 2018
35 Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier 2018
36 Rule, Britannia!: The Biopic and British National Identity 2018
37 Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination 2018
38 Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film 2019
39 From El Dorado to Lost Horizons: Traditionalist Films in the Hollywood Renaissance, 1967-1972 2019
40 Sounds Like Helicopters: Classical Music in Modernist Cinema 2019
41 Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies 2019
42 Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy 2019
43 The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939 2019
44 Slapstick Camera, The: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference 2020
45 Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord 2020
46 Funny How?: Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor 2020
47 Letters from Hollywood: 1977-2017 2020
48 Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema 2020
49 Mind Reeling: Psychopathology on Film 2020
50 Was It Yesterday?: Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television 2021
51 Race and the Suburbs in American Film 2021
52 Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in Film 2021
53 Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope 2021
54 Seeing Symphonically 2021
55 Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema 2021
56 Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation 2021
57 The Holiday in His Eye 2021
58 The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism 2022
59 Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination 2022
60 Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East: A History of Circulation 2022
61 Action, Action, Action: The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh 2022
62 The Cinematographer's Voice 2022
63 White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema 2022
64 No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema 2022
65 Whiteness at the End of the World: Race in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema 2022
66 Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth 2022
67 Distancing Representations in Transgender Film: Identification, Affect, and the Audience 2023