Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at FDD based in Brussels and author of the forthcoming book Iran: The Looming Crisis (London, ProfileBooks: 2010).
King is prolific, and not just in books: A recent profile noted that over the course of a few weeks this year he had a story published in the New Yorker, a review of a Raymond Carver biography in the New York Review of Books, an article in the horror magazine Fangoria and a poem in Playboy.
And it's also cresting a wave of enhanced electronic books as one of the most high-profile literary works to take advantage of the new abilities of readers such as Apple's iPad and other tablet computers.