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Stephen King

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Recent Role:
Novel on Stephen King's Bag of Bones
Gender:
Male
Born:
9-21-1947
Birthplace:
Portland, Maine
Birth Name:
Stephen Edwin King
AKA:
Richard Bachman, John Swithen, Master of Horror
Stephen King is perhaps the most successful and widely read author in the world. He has written over fifty novels, as well as several non-fiction books such as Danse Macabre (a study of horror in literature and film) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.

Born in 1947 to Donald King and Nellie Pillsbury, Stephen’s father deserted the family when Stephen was two years old. His mother moved herself and her two boys from Portland, Maine to her home town of Durham, which is where Stephen spent his formative years.





More At a young age, Stephen found a box in the attic with some old horror comics that had belonged to his father. This sparked a love for horror that led to a voracious appetite for horrific books and films. He began to write the plots of these films in story form for his friends who weren’t allowed to see them. Eventually his stories became so popular that he began selling them until his teachers found out and put a stop to it.

Stephen kept writing, however, contributing to a tiny newspaper written by his brother David called "Dave’s Rag," and later writing a column in his college paper (at the University of Maine at Orono) called "King’s Garbage Truck." While at UM, King met Tabitha Spruce, who he married in 1971. After struggling with multiple jobs, children, and living in a trailer, King finally sold his novel Carrie to Doubleday, beginning his rise to the top of the bestseller lists.

Still at the height of his fame, in 1999 his career was almost cut short when he was struck by a van while walking along a road near his home. The accident left him with a badly broken leg, a broken hip, and many other injuries to his knee, ribs, and spine as well as internal trauma. King survived the accident but had to severely limit his writing time because it became impossible for him to sit comfortably for long periods. Fictionalized accounts of the accident appeared in a number of his later works including the final novel of his "Dark Tower" series and his made for television mini-series Kingdom Hospital.

King announced that we was going to retire from writing after the completion of his "Dark Tower" series, but he continued to produce novels such as The Colorado Kid (2005), non-fiction books such as Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season and to produce a regular column on pop culture for "Entertainment Weekly" magazine.

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  • What do you think...

    Do you think that movie adaptations for Stephen King's works are good? I got to say that I kind of like the Shining, though it is not like the novel, it was cool with Jack getting crazy and everything, and I enjoyed Misery because it was potrayed so well, and it was kind of cool with Paul beingMore torture... but the one that gets my nerves to crack is IT, I have never seen such a scary movie, even now when horror movies have more visual effects and everything, I do not dare to see IT again because it scares me to hell! It scared me as a kid, and it will scare me forever (though I really hope not), IT is so creepy and terrible in that movie, I will have to say that it is the best movie adaptation of IT, but what do you guys think?

    4 comments, last one May 14, 2008
  • Which Stephen King book do you like most?

    Please let me know which one you prefer. If you have another preference, please let me know.

    13 comments, last one May 14, 2008
  • Your top 5 King books

    here's mine: 1. It 2. Hearts in atlantis 3. The dead zone 4. Salems lot 5. The stand

    7 comments, last one May 14, 2008
  • Welcome to the TV.com Forums for Stephen King

    Welcome to the TV.com Forums for Stephen King. Here is your area to discuss, dissect and debate all things about this person.

    1 comments, last one Jul 19, 2006
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    Ele é o melhor autor de livros de suspense e terror, amo filmes baseados em seus livros.

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    a very talented writer.one of the best! hide show

    stephen king is a great writer and he is one of my favorite authors. i'm a fan of fiction and i usually prefer reading suspense thriller / horror / mystery genre. i admire his writing. and i love most of his early works. my favorite is salem's lot. it's really scary. my imagination just ran wild. he also wrote something about his craft 'on writing', his guide to wanna be writers. it's always exciting to read his books. i wish i had his imagination. most of his novels have been adapted into movies as well. some of them are good and it's nice to see how it comes to life, the magic it brings but i'd say it's still best to read them. and i'm just glad that he's still writing and that's always something that i can look forward to.

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    i love stephen king he is a great writer and his books make great movies. one of mine which i cannot find on this web sight is IT. it is about a killer clown that kills people and the kids must return to dairy to help kill it.

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    My all time favorite author. hide show

    I have been a huge Stephen King since the first one of his books my aunt gave me. I have a collection of books most of them are Stephen King's. My all time favorite booke by him is Bag of Bones. I have noticed though I really do not like the movies based on Stephen King books or short stories because they are usually different then the books. I also have a subscription to Entertainment Weekly because he usually does a colonum for it. Hopefully one day i am able to read everything he has written an also seen all of the things based on his books.

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    AAAAAAWESOME!!!!!! HIS MOVIES ARE FREAKY!!! hide show

    I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED his "The Langoliers" movie! It was AWESOME!!! And TOTOLLY scary!! And did I mention awesome? Of course I did! Tottally scares me! And The Langoliers is the only movie from him I've ever seen & I'm hoping to see "It" & "Mazimum Overdrive" next!! but those movies sure sound scary! My parents told me all about them!!! And what there about1 and my mom has The Green Mile! She said it's her favorite movie from him! And she said she saw The Lawn Mower Man! (Whatever that is!) And she didn't see the one me & my dad saw, The Langoliers! But I don't know if she wants to!

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