John King is the author of ten novels and three novellas to date. His first, The Football Factory, was an immediate word-of-mouth success and was subsequently turned into a high-profile film. His stories reflect his cultural interests-particularly music, pubs, and youth cultures-while challenging a range of stereotypes that are often accepted by the established political factions. Common themes are powerlessness and enemy-creation, the contradictions found in every walk of life. Before becoming an author King worked at a variety of jobs and spent two years travelling around the world in the late 1980s. He has long been associated with fanzines, writing for various titles over the years and running Two Sevens in the early 1990s. He currently publishes and edits Verbal, a fiction-based publication. He lives in London.