( m. 1971)ChildrenNaomi KingSignatureWebsiteStephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American of, suspense, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 61 novels (including seven under the pen name ) and six non-fiction books. He has written approximately, most of which have been published in book collections.King has received, and Awards.
In 2003, the awarded him the. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire oeuvre, such as the (2004) and the Grand Master Award from the (2007). In 2015, King was awarded with a from the for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the 'King of Horror'. Contents.Early lifeStephen King was born September 21, 1947, in.
His father, Donald Edwin King, was a. Donald was born under the surname Pollock, but as an adult, used the surname King.
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King's mother was Nellie Ruth ( Pillsbury).When Stephen King was two years old, his father left the family. King's mother raised Stephen and his older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to;;. When King was 11, his family returned to, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths.
She then became a in a local residential facility for the. King was raised but lost his belief in organized religion while in high school. While no longer religious, King chooses to believe in the existence of God.As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless and seemingly in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend's death. Some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of King's darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir (2000).King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing horror fiction in his non-fiction (1981), in a chapter titled 'An Annoying Autobiographical Pause.' King compares his uncle's for water using the bough of an apple branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living.
That inspiration occurred while browsing through an attic with his elder brother, when King uncovered a paperback version of an collection of short stories he remembers as The Lurker in the Shadows, that had belonged to his father. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, 'I knew that I'd found home when I read that book.' King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from, in in 1966. He displayed an early interest in horror as an avid reader of, including (he later paid tribute to the comics in his screenplay for ). He began writing for fun while still in school, contributing articles to Dave's Rag, the newspaper his brother published with a, and later began selling to his friends stories based on movies he had seen (though when discovered by his teachers, he was forced to return the profits). The first of his stories to be independently published was 'I Was a Teenage Grave Robber'; it was serialized over four issues (three published and one unpublished) of a, Comics Review, in 1965.
That story was published the following year in a revised form as 'In a Half-World of Terror' in another fanzine, Stories of Suspense, edited. As a teen, King also won a.From 1966, King studied at the, graduating in 1970 with a in English. That year, his daughter Naomi Rachel was born.
He wrote a column, Steve King's Garbage Truck, for the student newspaper, and participated in a writing workshop organized. King held a variety of jobs to pay for his studies, including janitor, gas pump attendant, and worker at an industrial laundry. King met his future wife, fellow student, at the University's Fogler Library after one of Professor Hatlen's workshops; they wed in 1971. Career BeginningsKing sold his first professional short story, 'The Glass Floor', to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967.After graduating from the University of Maine, King earned a certificate to teach high school but, unable to find a teaching post immediately, initially supplemented his laboring wage by selling short stories to such as. Many of these early stories have been republished in the collection.
The short story 'The Raft' was published in Adam, a men's magazine. After being arrested for driving over a traffic cone, he was fined $250 and had no money to pay the petty larceny fine.
However, payment arrived for the short story 'The Raft' (then entitled 'The Float'), and King was able to pay the fine. In 1971, King was hired as a teacher at in. He continued to contribute short stories to magazines and worked on ideas for novels. Carrie and aftermathIn 1973, King's novel was accepted by publishing house.
Carrie was King's fourth novel, but it was the first to be published. It was written on a portable typewriter that belonged to his wife. The novel began as a short story intended for magazine, but King tossed the first three pages of his work in the garbage can.
Tabitha King fished the pages out of the garbage can and encouraged him to finish the story, saying that she would help him with the female perspective; he followed her advice and expanded it into a novel. King said, 'I persisted because I was dry and had no better ideas my considered opinion was that I had written the world's all-time loser.' According to The Guardian, Carrie 'is the story of Carrie White, a high-school student with latent—and then, as the novel progresses, developing—telekinetic powers. It's brutal in places, affecting in others (Carrie's relationship with her almost hysterically religious mother being a particularly damaged one), and gory in even more.' When Carrie was chosen for publication, King's phone was out of service. Editor William Thompson – who would eventually become King's close friend – sent a telegram to King's house in late March or early April 1973 which read: 'Carrie Officially A Doubleday Book. $2,500 Advance Against Royalties.
Congrats, Kid – The Future Lies Ahead, Bill.' According to King, he bought a new with the money from the advance.
On May 13, 1973, bought the paperback rights for $400,000, which—in accordance with King's contract with Doubleday—was split between them. Carrie set King's career in motion and became a significant novel in the horror genre. In 1976, it was made into a successful.King's was published in 1975.
In a 1987 issue of The Highway Patrolman magazine, he stated, 'The story seems sort of down home to me. I have a special cold spot in my heart for it!' After his mother's death, King and his family moved to, where King wrote (published 1977). The family returned to western Maine in 1975, where King completed his fourth novel, (published 1978).
In 1977, the family, with the addition of Owen Phillip (his third and last child), traveled briefly to England, returning to Maine that fall, where King began teaching creative writing at the University of Maine.In 1982, King published Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas with a more serious dramatic bent than the horror fiction for which King is famous. The collection is notable for having had three of its four novellas turned into Hollywood films: (1986) was adapted from the novella, (1994) was adapted from the novella, and (1998) was adapted from the novella of the same name.In 1985, King wrote his first work for the comic book medium, writing a few pages of the benefit comic book. The book, whose profits were donated to assist with relief in Africa, was written by a number of different authors in the comic book field, such as, and, as well as authors not primarily associated with that industry, such as. The following year, King published (1986), which was the best-selling hard-cover novel in the United States that year, and wrote the introduction to No. 400, an anniversary issue in which he expressed his preference for that character over. The Dark Tower books. Main article:In the late 1970s, King began what became a series of interconnected stories about a lone gunslinger, Roland, who pursues the 'Man in Black' in an alternate-reality universe that is a cross between 's and the American as depicted by and in their.
The first of these stories, was initially published in five installments by under the editorship of, from 1977 to 1981. The Gunslinger was continued as an eight-book epic series called, whose books King wrote and published infrequently over four decades. PseudonymsIn the late 1970s and early 1980s, King published a handful of short novels— (1977), (1979), (1981), (1982) and (1984)—under the pseudonym. The idea behind this was to test whether he could replicate his success again and to allay his fears that his popularity was an accident.
An alternate explanation was that publishing standards at the time allowed only a single book a year. He picked up the name from the hard rock band, of which he is a fan.Richard Bachman was exposed as King's pseudonym by a persistent Washington, D.C. Bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, who noticed similarities between the works and later located publisher's records at the that named King as the author of one of Bachman's novels. This led to a press release heralding Bachman's 'death'—supposedly from 'cancer of the pseudonym'. King dedicated his 1989 book, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to 'the deceased Richard Bachman', and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel was released, the companion novel carried the 'Bachman' byline.In 2006, during a press conference in, King declared that he had discovered another Bachman novel, titled. It was published on June 12, 2007. In fact, the original manuscript had been held at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts.
King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication.King has used other pseudonyms. The short story ' was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel ), by in April 1972. The story was reprinted in King's collection in 1993 under his own name.
In the introduction to the Bachman novel, King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that 'Bachman' was the person using the Swithen pseudonym.The 'children's book' was published in 2016 under the pseudonym Beryl Evans, who was portrayed by actress Allison Davies during a book signing at, and illustrated by Ned Dameron. It is adapted from a fictional book central to the plot of King's previous novel. Stephen King in 2011King's formula for learning to write well is: 'Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer.'
He sets out each day with a quota of 2000 words and will not stop writing until it is met. He also has a simple definition for talent in writing: 'If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.' When asked why he writes, King responds: 'The answer to that is fairly simple—there was nothing else I was made to do. I was made to write stories and I love to write stories. That's why I do it. I really can't imagine doing anything else and I can't imagine not doing what I do.' He is also often asked why he writes such terrifying stories and he answers with another question: 'Why do you assume I have a choice?'
King usually begins the story creation process by imagining a 'what if' scenario, such as what would happen if a writer is kidnapped by a sadistic nurse in Colorado.King often uses authors as characters, or includes mention of in his stories, novellas and novels, such as Paul Sheldon who is the main character in, adult in, Ben Mears in, and Jack Torrance in. He has extended this to breaking the by including himself as a character in the from onwards. See also for a complete list.
In September 2009 it was announced he would serve as a writer for. InfluencesKing has called 'the author who influenced me most as a writer.' In a current edition of Matheson's, King is quoted as saying, 'A horror story if there ever was one.a great adventure story—it is certainly one of that select handful that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading.' Other acknowledged influences include, and.King's The Shining is immersed in influences, including ' by (which was directly influenced by the first gothic novel, 's ). The Overlook Hotel acts as a replacement for the traditional gothic castle, and Jack Torrance is a tragic villain seeking redemption.King's favorite books are (in order):;;;;;;;;;. Critical responseScience fiction editors and offer a largely favorable appraisal of King, noting his 'pungent prose, sharp ear for dialogue, disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciation of human stupidity and cruelty (especially to children) all of which rank him among the more distinguished 'popular' writers.'
In his book The Philosophy of Horror (1990), discusses King's work as an exemplar of modern horror fiction. Analyzing both the narrative structure of King's fiction and King's non-fiction ruminations on the art and craft of writing, Carroll writes that for King, 'the horror story is always a contest between the normal and the abnormal such that the normal is reinstated and, therefore, affirmed.' In his analysis of post–World War II horror fiction, The Modern Weird Tale (2001), critic devotes a chapter to King's work. Joshi argues that King's best-known works (his supernatural novels) are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to endings. Despite these criticisms, Joshi argues that since (1993), King has been tempering the worst of his writing faults, producing books that are leaner, more believable and generally better written.
In 1996, King won an for his short story '.In his short story collection A Century of Great Suspense Stories, editor noted that King 'singlehandedly made popular fiction grow up. While there were many good best-selling writers before him, King, more than anybody since John D. MacDonald, brought reality to genre novels. He has often remarked that was ' meets Dracula.
And so it was. The rich characterization, the careful and caring social eye, the interplay of story line and character development announced that writers could take worn themes such as vampirism and make them fresh again.
Before King, many popular writers found their efforts to make their books serious blue-penciled by their editors. 'Stuff like that gets in the way of the story,' they were told. Well, it's stuff like that that has made King so popular, and helped free the popular name from the shackles of simple genre writing. He is a master of masters.' In 2003, King was honored by the with a lifetime achievement award, the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Some in the literary community expressed disapproval of the award:, the former CEO of, described King's work as 'non-literature' and critic denounced the choice:The decision to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for 'distinguished contribution' to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of, but perhaps even that is too kind.
He shares nothing with. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis.responded:Let me assure you that King's work most definitely is literature, because it was written to be published and is read with admiration. What Snyder really means is that it is not the literature preferred by the academic-literary elite.In 2008, King's book On Writing was ranked 21st on list of 'The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008'.
Appearances and adaptations in other media. Main article:King and his wife Tabitha own Zone Radio Corp, a radio station group consisting of /620 AM, /100.3 & /103.1.King tried his hand at directing with, in which he also made a cameo appearance as a man using a malfunctioning ATM.King produced and acted in a television series, which is based on the Danish miniseries by.In 2010, King appeared in a cameo role as a named Bachman (a reference to his pen name Richard Bachman) on the series.The TV series is based on King's novella, The Colorado Kid.In 2019, King appeared in a cameo role as a thrift store owner in. Political views and activismIn April 2008, King spoke out against HB 1423, a bill pending in the that would restrict or ban the sale of to anyone under the age of 18. King argued that such laws allow legislators to ignore the economic divide between the rich and poor and the easy availability of guns, which he believed were the actual causes of violence.A controversy emerged on May 5, 2008 when Noel Sheppard posted a clip of King at a reading event on the Web site NewsBusters. King, talking to high-school students, had said: 'If you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that.'
The comment was described by the blog as 'another in a long line of liberal media members bashing the military,' and likened to 's from 2006. King responded later that day, saying, 'That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt.I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don't support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career—military or otherwise.' King later expressed regret for the remark, saying that he misspoke. King added that during the Vietnam War, serving in the military was a great career for some.During the 2008 presidential election, King voiced his support for Democratic candidate. King was quoted as calling conservative commentator 'Satan's mentally challenged younger brother.'
On March 8, 2011, King spoke at a political rally in aimed against Governor (R-FL), voicing his opposition to the.On April 30, 2012, King published an article in calling for rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, citing it as 'a practical necessity and moral imperative that those who have received much should be obligated to pay. In the same proportion'.On January 25, 2013, King published an essay titled 'Guns' via 's feature, which discusses the in the wake of the. King called for gun owners to support a ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons, writing, 'Autos and semi-autos are weapons of mass destruction.When lunatics want to make war on the unarmed and unprepared, these are the weapons they use.' The essay became the fifth-bestselling non-fiction title for the Kindle.King has criticized and Rep., deeming them racists.In June 2018, King called for the release of the Ukrainian filmmaker who is jailed in. Maine politicsKing endorsed in the for the seat held by.King publicly criticized during LePage's tenure as, referring to him as one of (with then- and then- being the other two). He was critical of LePage for incorrectly suggesting in a 2015 radio address that King avoided paying Maine income taxes by living out of state for part of the year.
The statement was later corrected by the Governor's office, but no apology was issued. King said LePage was 'full of the stuff that makes the grass grow green' and demanded that LePage 'man up and apologize'. LePage declined to apologize to King, stating, 'I never said Stephen King did not pay income taxes. What I said was, Stephen King's not in Maine right now.
That's what I said.' The attention garnered by the LePage criticism led to efforts to encourage King to run for in. King stated he would not run or serve. King sent a tweet on June 30, 2015 calling LePage 'a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love.
If he won't govern, he should resign.' He later clarified that he was not calling on LePage to resign, but to 'go to work or go back home.' On August 27, 2016, King called LePage 'a bigot, a homophobe, and a racist'. PhilanthropyKing has stated that he donates approximately $4 million per year 'to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment ( tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organisations that underwrite the arts.' The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, chaired by King and his wife, ranks sixth among Maine charities in terms of average annual giving with over $2.8 million in grants per year, according to.In November 2011, the STK Foundation donated $70,000 in matched funding via his radio station to help pay the heating bills for families in need in his home town of Bangor, Maine, during the winter. Personal life.
King's home inKing married on January 2, 1971. She too is a novelist and philanthropic activist. The couple own and divide their time between three houses: one in (set to become a museum and writer's retreat ), one in, and for the winter a waterfront mansion located off the in. The Kings have three children, a daughter and two sons, and four grandchildren. Their daughter Naomi is a minister in, with her lesbian partner, Rev. Both of the Kings' sons are authors: published his first collection of stories, We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, in 2005., who writes as Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, in 2005.
His debut novel, (2007), was optioned by Warners Bros.In the early 1970s, King developed a drinking problem which would plague him for more than a decade. See also:. Brooks, Justin (2008). Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author. Cemetery Dance. (1985). The Many Facets of Stephen King.
Starmont House.; David A. Engebretson (1985). The Shorter Works of Stephen King. Starmont House.
(1985). Stephen King as Richard Bachman.
Starmont House. Collings, Michael R. The Films of Stephen King.
Starmont House. (1986). The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America's Premier Horror Writer. Starmont House.
Collings, Michael R. The Stephen King Phenomenon. Starmont House. Collings, Michael R. Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960–2000. Overlook Connection Press.
(2008). Stephen King Is Richard Bachman. Overlook Connection Press. Hoppenstand, Gary, ed. Stephen King. Salem Press. Spignesi, Stephen (1991).
The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia. Contemporary Books. Spignesi, Stephen (1998). The Lost Work of Stephen King. Birch Lane Press.
Spignesi, Stephen (2001). The Essential Stephen King. Career Press.; David Rawsthorne; Norma Blackburn. The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King. Kanrock Partners. (2006). Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished.
Cemetery Dance.; Justin Brooks. The Stephen King Collector's Guide. Kanrock Partners.; Justin Brooks (2008). Stephen King: The Non-Fiction.
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Cole recognizes this at once and swears on the spot to claim Charlie as his mate.Of course, he isn't the only one with such plans. Charlie is too precious to let go without a fight, and one of the most powerful alphas in the world has already staked a claim, whether Charlie-or Cole-like it or not. Format: PDFSize: 7.4 MBPages: 416A world on the brink of war.All Avaline Hall wants is to enjoy her senior year at Blythewood Academy, the boarding school where she’s been trained to defend humankind from forces of dark magic. But when Ava is shown a glimpse into the future in the enchanted Blythe Wood, she discovers that the evil Judicus van Drood is rallying nations into a war that seems destined to destroy both the human and faerie worlds. Only Ava and her allies have a chance at stopping van Drood, but how many must die in the process? And how can Ava and the boy she loves be together when everything around them is falling apart?