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Stephen King - Wikipedia. Stephen Edwin King (born September 2. American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 3.

King has published 5. Richard Bachman, and six non- fiction books. He has written around 2. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the film The Shawshank Redemption which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.[3][4][5]Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine. Early life and education. King was born September 2. Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman.

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Donald was born under the surname Pollock, but as an adult, used the surname King.[6][7][8] King's mother was Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury).[8]When Stephen King was two years old, his father left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes", leaving his mother to raise Stephen and his older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Stratford, Connecticut. When King was 1. 1, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged.[1] King was raised Methodist[9] and remains religious as an adult.[1. 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.

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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,[1.

King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing (2. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing horror fiction in his non- fiction Danse Macabre (1. An Annoying Autobiographical Pause".

King compares his uncle's successfully dowsing 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 H. Watch The Barrens Online Free HD there. P. Lovecraft 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 2. I knew that I'd found home when I read that book."[1. King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine.

He displayed an early interest in horror as an avid reader of EC's horror comics, including Tales from the Crypt (he later paid tribute to the comics in his screenplay for Creepshow). Night Of The Living Dead: Resurrection Full Movie. He began writing for fun while still in school, contributing articles to Dave's Rag, the newspaper his brother published with a mimeograph machine, 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 fanzine, Comics Review, in 1. 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 by Marv Wolfman.[1. As a teen, King also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award.[1.

From 1. 96. 6, King studied at the University of Maine, graduating in 1. Bachelor of Arts in English. That year, his daughter Naomi Rachel was born.

He wrote a column, Steve King's Garbage Truck, for the student newspaper, The Maine Campus and participated in a writing workshop organized by Burton Hatlen.[1. King held a variety of jobs to pay for his studies, including janitor, gas pump attendant, and worker at an industrial laundry. Career. Beginnings. King sold his first professional short story, "The Glass Floor", to Startling Mystery Stories in 1. The Fogler Library at the University of Maine now holds many of King's papers.

After leaving the university, 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 men's magazines such as Cavalier. Many of these early stories have been republished in the collection Night Shift. In 1. 97. 1, King married Tabitha Spruce, a fellow student at the University of Maine whom he had met at the University's Fogler Library after one of Professor Hatlen's workshops.[1. That fall, King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine.

He continued to contribute short stories to magazines and worked on ideas for novels.[1] During that time, King developed a drinking problem which would plague him for more than a decade.[1. In 1. 97. 3, King's first novel Carrie was accepted by publishing house Doubleday. King had thrown an early draft of the novel into the trash after becoming discouraged with his progress writing about a teenage girl with psychic powers. His wife retrieved the manuscript and encouraged him to finish it.[1. His advance for Carrie was $2,5. King's paperback rights later earned $4. King and his family moved to southern Maine because of his mother's failing health.

At this time, he began writing a book titled Second Coming, later titled Jerusalem's Lot, before finally changing the title to Salem's Lot (published 1. In a 1. 98. 7 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!"[1. Soon after Carrie's release in 1.

King's mother died of uterine cancer. His Aunt Emrine had read the novel to her before she died. King has written of his severe drinking problem at this time, stating that he was drunk delivering the eulogy at his mother's funeral.[1. After his mother's death, King and his family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where King wrote The Shining (published 1. The family returned to western Maine in 1. King completed his fourth novel, The Stand (published 1.

In 1. 97. 7, 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. He has kept his primary residence in Maine ever since.[1. In 1. 98. 5, King wrote his first work for the comic book medium,[2. X- Men comic book Heroes for Hope Starring the X- Men.

The book, whose profits were donated to assist with famine relief in Africa, was written by a number of different authors in the comic book field, such as Chris Claremont, Stan Lee, and Alan Moore, as well as authors not primarily associated with that industry, such as Harlan Ellison.[2. The following year, King wrote the introduction to Batman No.

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In the late 1. 97. 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 J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle- earth and the American Wild West as depicted by Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone in their spaghetti Westerns. The first of these stories, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, was initially published in five installments by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction under the editorship of Edward L. Ferman, from 1. 97. The Gunslinger was continued as an eight- book epic series called The Dark Tower, whose books King wrote and published infrequently over four decades.

In 1. 98. 2, the fantasy small- press Donald M. Grant (known for publishing the entire canon of Robert E. Howard) printed these stories for the first time together in hardcover form with color and black- and- white illustrations by fantasy artist Michael Whelan, as The Gunslinger. Watch Hitler Meets Christ Online Freeform. Each chapter was named for the story previously published in magazine form.