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
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1
The Vindico
2012
2
The Feros
2013
Dragons vs. Drones Books
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1
Dragons vs. Drones
2016
2
Enemy of the Realm
2017
OCDaniel Books
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1
OCDaniel
2016
2
Sara and the Search for Normal
2020
Wizenard Books (with Kobe Bryant)
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1
Training Camp
2019
2
Season One
2020
Standalone Novels
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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
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Year
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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
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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