Whatever Happened to Frankie King

Frankie King was a precocious student and promising basketball player at Brooklyn's James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Recruited as a starting guard at the University of North Carolina, he dropped out before playing a single game. This graphic novel follows King's enigmatic life from its auspicious start in the limelight to his reclusive career as the author of more than forty novels, mostly written under a pseudonym. Whatever Happened to Frankie King? is the story of a unique and sometimes troubled life as well as a meditation on dreams--those realized, lost, and abandoned.