Influences
King himself acknowledged the influence of his itinerant career in his writing: "Each of the things which I have written has been inspired by a particular place which I have visited or lived in. The settings are always as authentic as possible and they determine the action." These influences are noticeable in the settings for The Night The Water Came (relief operations on a tropical island), Snakes and Snakes (India), and The 22 Letters (the Middle East).
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