Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born on
September 21, 1947 in Portland, Mine, USA.
He is an author of contemporary horror,
supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and
fantasy.
When Stephen was two years old, his
father, Donald Edwin King , abandoned the family.
His mother, Nellie Ruth Pillsbury, created alone
him and his older stepbrother David, often
experiencing serious financial difficulties. The
family moved to the birthplace of Ruth, Durham,
Maine but also spent several periods in De Pere,
Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford,
Connecticut.
From 1966 to 1971, Stephen studied English at
the University of Maine, where he wrote one column
titled "King's Garbage Truck" for the student newspaper, the Maine Campus. In 1971 ,
his daughter Naomi Rachel was born.
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He met Tabitha Spruce there (his wife) and were married in 1971.
Stephen taught at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. He and his family
lived in a trailer, and he wrote short stories, mostly to men's magazines.
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 1973, his first novel, “Carrie” was published and
he won $ 400.000 with the novel. Soon after Carrie 's
release in 1974, King's mother died of uterine cancer.
After his mother's death, King and his family moved
to Boulder, Colorado, where King wrote The Shining
(1977). The family returned to western Maine in 1975,
where King completed his fourth novel, The Stand ( 1978).
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2.Stephen King first novel "Carrie"
In 1977, the family, with the addition of Owen Phillip (his third and last child),
travelled 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.
In 1985, King wrote his first work for the comic book medium, writing a few
pages of the benefit 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. The following year, King wrote the introduction to Batman No. 400, an
anniversary issue in which he expressed his preference for that character over
Superman.
King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British
Fantasy Society Awards. His novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette
nominee, and his short story "The Man in the Black Suit" received the O. Henry Award.
In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters.
He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire
oeuvre, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement , the Canadian
Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grand Master Award
from the Mystery Writers of America.
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