![]() So when I started to write, I had a tendency to write in images because that was all I knew at the time." King was a voracious reader in his youth: "I read everything from Nancy Drew to Psycho. I just did." He says he started writing when he was "about six or seven, just copying panels out of comic books and then making up my own stories. ![]() In conversation with Terry Gross, King says: "My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. After that, she became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged. When King was 11, his family moved to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. They moved from Scarborough and depended on relatives in Chicago, Illinois Croton-on-Hudson West De Pere, Wisconsin Fort Wayne, Indiana Malden, Massachusetts and Stratford, Connecticut. His mother raised him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. When King was two, his father left the family. King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing (2000). Only later did the family learn of the friend's death. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned speechless and seemingly in shock. Īs a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. King's parents returned to Maine towards the end of World War II, living in a modest house in Scarborough. They lived with Donald's family in Chicago before moving to Croton-on-Hudson, New York. His parents were married in Scarborough, Maine, on July 23, 1939. King's mother was Nellie Ruth King (née Pillsbury). His father, Donald Edwin King, a traveling vacuum salesman after returning from World War II, was born in Indiana with the surname Pollock, changing it to King as an adult. King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer, for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities." Early life and education He has also won awards for his overall contribution to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. ![]() Several of King's works have won the Bram Stoker and August Derleth Awards. ![]() King has published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has cowritten works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. The novellas provided the basis for the films Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption. Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the horror genre. His debut, Carrie, was published in 1974, and was followed by 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand and The Dead Zone. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. Called the " King of Horror", his books have sold more than 350 million copies as of 2006, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. Who else can get away with starting a chapter in the middle of a sentence ? It's overlong ( 1116 pages) and not my favorite genre but hard to beat as pure escapist reading.Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. I grew up staying up late of a weekend to watch good old Nightmare Theater on yes, a black and white TV and shopping at the local Woolworths, so although I liked most of the buildup story better than the creepy ending, I still enjoyed this as it's just classic vintage King. Then follows them when they are called back after 27 years to complete their task. This coming of age/horror is the tale of 7 outcast kids who take it upon themselves to rid the town of the child devouring creature ( It) which dwells in buried sewer lines and morphs into the object of their own nightmares. I've been in Derry, Maine the last few weeks since Stephen King has great talent for making you feel like you're living the storyline. I am so happy to have finally read this novel but I am so sad it's over. SK writes children and the loss of childhood so brilliantly sad. The spider? The blood in the drain? What happened to poor Georgie?īut details of the children and the friendships in this novel is what drives this book. ::shudder::īut this novel is a kitten-squisher for a reason- it's scary and creepy and definitely nightmare-inducing. And thank you Uncle Stevie for ruining clowns- although to be quite honest I don't really blame you, I blame Tim Curry.
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