stephen king

     

Stephen Ewin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, musician, columnist, actor, film producer and director. Having sold over 350 million copies of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, which demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history. He has also written science fiction, fantasy, short-fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, teleplays and stageplays. Many of his stories have been adapted for other media, including movies, television series and comic books. King has written a number of books using the pen name Richard Bachman and one short story where he was credited as John Swithen. In 2003 he received The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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  • Speaking at his alma mater, he urged graduates to be voracious readers, donate to worthy causes & stay in Maine
  • In "Comics Review" in 1965, "I was a Teenage Grave Robber" was his first published work; he's still going strong
  • "Needful Things" is a recent tale of terror by this author of "It" & "Cujo"
  • In 1998 this master of horror rattled our nerves with "Bag of Bones"
  • His book "Christine" is 18--time for a new transmission
  • Over 30 movies have been made from my works, including "Maximum Overdrive"
  • "The Dead Zone","The Dark Half","It"
  • While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit
  • In 1990 "Four Past Midnight" hit the bestseller lists for this horrormeister
  • In "On Writing" this horror author wrote about his early life in Maine & gave advice to aspiring novelists
  • In 1996 this master of horror turned to serial fiction with a 6-part thriller called "The Green Mile"
  • "It" was No. 1 for him in '86
  • In the early '70s, this master of horror taught English at Maine's Hampden Academy
  • This author's "Storm of the Century" rained over the airwaves in February 1999
  • In 1966 this Portland-born author published his first short story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber"
  • When his 1978 novel "The Stand" was reissued in 1990, it was about 50% longer than the original
  • His "Dolores Claiborne" & "Gerald's Game" were 2 of the top-selling novels of 1992
  • This author can be seen as a beer-guzzling spectator in "Knightriders" & a truck driver in "Creepshow 2"
  • This author was a high school English teacher in Maine when his first book was published in 1974
  • "Sister Carrie" was Theodore Dreiser's 1st novel, and "Carrie" was this author's
  • Among this author's bestsellers are "Misery" & "The Tommyknockers"
  • In 2003 he said he had completed the last 3 volumes of his "Dark Tower" series & had revised the first volume
  • "The Stand"
  • He wrote "Christine", about a scary car, & "Cujo", about a scary dog
  • This spinner of such tales as "It" & "The Stand" stands well over 6 feet
  • In 1996 he simultaneously published "The Regulators" as Richard Bachman & "Desperation" under this name
  • Max von Sydow was Leland Gaunt, AKA the Devil, in "Needful Things", based on one of this author's novels
  • Peter Straub collaborated with this man on the wildly successful best-seller, "The Talisman"
  • His novellas include "Hearts in Atlantis", "The Body" & "Apt Pupil"
  • He wrote "The Fifth Quarter" under the name John Swithen, a musician at the prom in his novel "Carrie"
  • This New Englander wrote "Bag of Bones", about a sufferer from writer's block--how would he know?
  • Richard Bachman
  • Oh, the horror of this 1966 Lisbon Falls, Maine high school graduate seen here
  • When exorcising on your Scaremaster, you might want to read "The Shining" by this author
  • He dedicated his 2006 novel "Cell" in part to "Night of the Living Dead" director George Romero
  • Under the name Richard Bachman, he wrote "Thinner", about a man with a wasting disease
  • Peter Straub & this master of horror were good friends long before they collaborated on "The Talisman"
  • He wrote his 1982 novel "The Running Man" under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
  • "The Shining", "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"
  • In 1990 he revised his 1978 novel "The Stand"
  • "Carrie"(1974)
  • Part I of his book "Christine" is called "Dennis - Teenage Car Songs"
  • In 1990 he reissued "The Stand" with nearly 500 more pages than the original
  • Because he was "drinking a case of 16-ounce tallboys a night", he said, he barely remembers writing "Cujo"
  • In his "Nightmares & Dreamscapes", he penned a short story about a disembodied finger bothering a "Jeopardy!" viewer
  • 1990 bestsellers included Sidney Sheldon's "Memories of Midnight" & this author's "Four Past Midnight"
  • In "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" this author wrote, "I believe there is an unseen world all around us"
  • "Misery","Desperation","The Green Mile"
  • Randall Flagg, a character created by this man, is aka Nyarlathotep, Walter Padick & Walter O'Dim
  • Annie Wilkes,John Coffey,Carrie White
  • In the 1980s he was quite at home on the bestseller list with books like "Misery", "Cujo" & "Christine"
  • The town of Derry is the setting of this author's "It" & "Insomnia"
  • In a novel by this man, Annie Wilkes punishes Paul Sheldon for killing literary heroine Misery Chastain
  • This author once had a newsletter devoted to him titled "Castle Rock"

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