Charles King is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Gods of the Upper Air, which received the Francis Parkman Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times History Prize, and the British Academy’s Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. His other books include Odessa, winner of a National Jewish Book Award, and Midnight at the Pera Palace.
Books in order of publication:
The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture – 1999
The Black Sea: A History – 2004
The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus – 2008
Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe – 2009
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams – 2011
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul – 2014
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century – 2019
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