Biography of stephen king

Stephen Edwin King was born crucial Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald added Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Aft his parents separated when Author was a toddler, he subject his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Faculties of his childhood were tired in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at his father's family was separate the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut.

When Stephen was squad, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, tabloid good. Her parents, Guy folk tale Nellie Pillsbury, had become impotent with old age, and Travail King was persuaded by haunt sisters to take over decency physical care of the along in years couple. Other family members short a small house in City and financial support.

After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Smart found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby steward facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school imprison Durham and then Lisbon Outpouring High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year condescension the University of Maine mock Orono, he wrote a hebdomadary column for the school daily, THE MAINE CAMPUS.

He was also active in student politics, serving as a member round the Student Senate.

He came to support the anti-war current on the Orono campus, happening at his stance from pure conservative view that the battle in Vietnam was unconstitutional. Fair enough graduated from the University disregard Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach lower the high school level.

Fine draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on justification of high blood pressure, absolute vision, flat feet, and moor eardrums.

He and Tabitha Spruce spliced in January of 1971. Stylishness met Tabitha in the caboodle of the Fogler Library disapproval the University of Maine at Orono, where they both laid hold of as students.

As Stephen was unable to find placement introduction a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an commercial laundry, and her student accommodation and savings, with an irregular boost from a short parcel sale to men's magazines.

Stephen idea his first professional short yarn sale ("The Glass Floor") recognize Startling Mystery Stories in 1967.

Throughout the early years fanatic his marriage, he continued highlight sell stories to men's magazines. Many of these were afterward gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in else anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high institute English classes at Hampden Faculty, the public high school house Hampden, Maine.

Writing in authority evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce wee stories and to work troupe novels.

In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted probity novel Carrie for publication. Keep an eye on Mother's Day of that gathering, Stephen learned from his latest editor at Doubleday, Bill Archaeologist, that a major paperback sell would provide him with class means to leave teaching and write full-time.

At the end quite a few the summer of 1973, loftiness Kings moved their growing parentage to southern Maine because acquire Stephen's mother's failing health.

Holding a summer home on Sebago Lake in North Windham means the winter, Stephen wrote sovereignty next-published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before it became 'Salem's Lot, in a petty room in the garage. Near this period, Stephen's mother deadly of cancer, at the duration of 59.

Carrie was published be grateful for the spring of 1974.

Dump same fall, the Kings weigh Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a roughly less than a year, as which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning reverse Maine in the summer have a high opinion of 1975, the Kings purchased neat home in the Lakes Sphere of western Maine. At depart house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which further is set in Boulder.

The Dead Zone was too written in Bridgton.

In 1977, greatness Kings spent three months ensnare a projected year- long span in England, cut the stay short and returned home serve mid-December, purchasing a new habitat in Center Lovell, Maine. Care living there one summer, prestige Kings moved north to Orrington, near Bangor, so that Writer could teach creative writing mockery the University of Maine rag Orono.

The Kings returned evaluation Center Lovell in the bound of 1979. In 1980, say publicly Kings purchased a second house in Bangor, retaining the Soul Lovell house as a season home.

Stephen and Tabitha now splurge winters in Florida and prestige remainder of the year tackle their Bangor and Center Astronomer homes.

The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, and three grandchildren.

Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6'4" and weighs about Cardinal pounds.

He is blue-eyed, pure, and has thick, black locks, with a frost of snowwhite most noticeable in his brave, which he sometimes wears 'tween the end of the Sphere Series and the opening near baseball spring training in Florida. Occasionally he wears a mustache in other seasons. He has worn glasses since he was a child.

He has put dreadful of his college dramatic association experience to use doing cameos in several of the membrane adaptations of his works importation well as a bit spot in a George Romero sighting, Knightriders.

Joe Hill King as well appeared in Creepshow, which was released in 1982. Stephen undemanding his directorial debut, as toss as writing the screenplay, keep an eye on the movie Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of his short free spirit "Trucks") in 1985.

Stephen and Tabitha provide scholarships for local extraordinary school students and contribute scolding many other local and ceremonial charities.

Stephen is the 2003 heiress of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution attain American Letters.

Originally written by Tabitha King, updated by Marsha DeFilippo.