![]() ![]() Together these display the twin threads of King’s writing life: his commitment to being a professional writer, scholarly yet accessible to a wide public and his desire to account for the difference ethnicity has made in his own life, as well as to the history of New Zealand, which has driven his many efforts ‘to make Maori preoccupations more intelligible to some non-Maori New Zealanders’.ĭuring the late 1970s–early 1980s Pakeha scholars of Maori issues were frequently viewed with deep suspicion. King, Michael (1945-2004), writer, historian and biographer, recounts his early childhood in his ‘selective and ethnic autobiography’ Being Pakeha: An Encounter with New Zealand and the Maori Renaissance (1985) and the development of his professional life in the sequel Hidden Places: A Memoir in Journalism (1992). ![]() FROM THE OXFORD COMPANION TO NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE ![]()
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