(born 1933), U.S. radio and TV talk-show host and writer, born in Brooklyn, N.Y.; swept floors at tiny radio station in Miami, Fla., before becoming a disc jockey for various stations; extravagant lifestyle led to huge debts and an arrest for stealing; given new chance in 1978 by Mutual Radio Network, hosting the first nationwide call-in show (The Larry King Show), heard nightly in the 1990s by some 3.5 million people; host of TV's Larry King, Live on the Cable News Network from 1985; gained much publicity in 1992 when H. Ross Perot announced his bid for the U.S. presidency during an interview with King; columnist for USA Today since 1985; author of several autobiographical books.