In many of her writings, King often referred to the comical contradictions between the material reality of her lower middle class upbringing and the snobbish behavior of her grandmother. In particular, her grandmother required high standards of behavior from her, referring to the family as descendants of Virginia's colonial elite. Each of these people influenced her development as a person. She grew up in the District with her parents, her maternal grandmother, and her grandmother's maid.
King was born Janu in Washington, D.C., to an American mother, Louise Cora (née Ruding) King, and a British father, Herbert Frederick King. She was an active Episcopalian (though she often referred to her agnosticism), a member of Phi Alpha Theta, and a monarchist. King was a traditionalist conservative, but not a " movement conservative," and she objected to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for National Review titled "The Bent Pin." Until her retirement in 2002, her column in National Review, "The Misanthrope's Corner", was known for "serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean", as the magazine put it. While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King's later work was published in National Review. Florence Virginia King (Janu– January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist.
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