Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger;November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American author, radio and television host, whose awards included 2 Peabodys, an Emmy and 10 Cable ACE Awards.[2] During his career, King conducted over 60,000 interviews on radio and TV. King was born and raised in New York City to Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States from Belarus in the 1930s. He studied at Lafayette High School, a public high school in Brooklyn. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s and beginning in 1978, gained national prominence as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard over the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN.[5][6] King hosted Larry King Now from 2012 to 2020, which aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He hosted Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show, on the same three channels from 2013 to 2020. King also appeared in television series and films, usually playing himself. He remained active until his death in 2021. That year, he suffered from a bout of COVID-19 and shortly after his recovery, died from sepsis.