{"product_id":"whatever-happened-to-frankie-king-9781637790779","title":"Whatever Happened to Frankie King","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn's James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and professional players of all time, and he was recruited as a starting guard at the University of North Carolina. But Frankie dropped out before playing a single game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis graphic novel follows King's enigmatic life from its auspicious start in the limelight to his very reclusive existence in New York City, where he authored more than forty novels, including a popular series of cozy cat mysteries written under the pseudonym Lydia Adamson. \u003ci\u003eWhatever Happened to Frankie King\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a unique and sometimes troubled life as well as a meditation on dreams realized, lost, and abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJay Neugeboren\u003c\/strong\u003e is the award-winning author of twenty-three books, including the novels \u003ci\u003eThe American Sun and Wind Moving Picture Company\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAfter Camus\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eImagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival\u003c\/i\u003e, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed documentary film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEli Neugeboren\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCorpus: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWeapon Echh!\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCOVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graphic Mundi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878136647954,"sku":"9781637790779","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a77baed5-c173-48e3-9f89-9f55318c4494.jpg?v=1738172821","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/whatever-happened-to-frankie-king-9781637790779","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}