At MacDowell, Roger King completed a draft of a novel with the working title The Industrial Revolution of Love. Drawing on fiction, existing literature, memoir and essay, the novel travels through 250 years of desire and capitalism, to ask the question, "What's next?"
An earlier novel, A Girl From Zanzibar, won the BABRA award for novel of the year. His screenplay adaptation is optioned for a feature film, Joanna Lipper directing. Other novels include Sea Level, Written on a Stranger’s Map, Horizontal Hotel, and the autobiographical, Love and Fatigue in America. He has also worked as a UN economist in many Asia and Africa countries and as a documentary film producer in collaboration with Mira Nair, Dinaz Stafford, and, currently, Rani Khanna.
