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I. Marlene King

American writer, producer and director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16730869 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ina Marlene King is a writer, producer and director. She is best known as the executive producer and showrunner of the Freeform teen drama series Pretty Little Liars, based on the book series of the same name by Sara Shepard.

Personal life

King has two sons. She grew up in Winchester, Indiana, and Greenville, Ohio.

Editorial summary

“I. Marlene King” enters the record as american writer, producer and director. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marlene, King and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-05-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marlene, King and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“I. Marlene King” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Marlene, King and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16730869. VIAF identifies the subject as 107545009. The Library of Congress control number is no96019671. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “I. Marlene King”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow I. Marlene King primary sources, I. Marlene King archive and Marlene research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “I. Marlene King”?
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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “I. Marlene King” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.