STEPHEN KING

Biography

Stephen Edwin King (Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947) is an American writer known for his horror novels. It is known worldwide for being the author of novels such as Carrie, glow, It, cemetery of animals, Misery, the mystery of Salem's Lot, among others.

He was the second son of King Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury. When King was two years old, his father abandoned his mother familia.1 the kid next to his brother mayor David by herself, sometimes under great financial problems

He began writing at an early age, based on recently seen movies and cartoons. While I was in College, began to sell stories to their peers. However, the activity was not well seen by their teachers, who forced him to return the money ganado.5 approximately at the age of thirteen, he discovered in his aunt's House an old box with books of his father, terror and science ficcion.1 most since then began to submit their papers to journals, without receiving a positive response. His first published story was included in the magazine Comic Book Review of Mike Garrett on 1965

He studied English at the University of Maine, Orono, with great economic hardship because of the poverty of his mother, and wrote a column entitled "King completo Garbage Truck" in the same magazine.

King met his future wife, the writer Tabitha Spruce, in the library of the University, and they married in 1971.3 writer took part-time jobs to pay for his studies, even in a laundry. He used the experience to write the stories of (The Mangler) and (Roadwork).

During this period, King began to have problems of alcoholism, which kept a decada these problems will be reflected in her second novel, the glow, in the person of its main character, an alcoholic writer Jack Torrance, isolated in a hotel by a symbolic snow representing cocaine

Career as a writer

During this period, he began writing a number of novels. One of his first ideas was that of a young woman with psychic powers. However, she felt discouraged, and threw it in the trash. Tabitha rescued work and novel encouraged him to terminarlo.8 on after, titled it Carrie and it sent it to the Publisher Doubleday company, passing the time forgot her. Later, he received a purchase offer for $2,500 in advance (not a great advance for a novel, even at that time). Shortly afterwards, the value of Carrie with the rights of the manuscript were sold for $400,000 (200,000 of whom received the editor

his family and friends decided to help him with his vices, showed him his own garbage to give you account of the level of addiction that had reached requested help and abandoned all forms of alcohol and drugs.

Automobile accident

On June 19, King was walking through the right shoulder of route 5 in North Novell. Driver Bryan Smith, distracted by an uncontrolled rottweiler moving in the back of his car struck King, who landed in a ditch of about 4 meters deep from the pavement of route 5 highway.

After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, he returned to work where he had left it in the novel On Writing, although he resented of her hip still and I could only sit forty minutes until the pain turn intolerable in July.

That same year ended most Buick 8: novel in which one of the characters dies in a car accident. The spooky similarities with his own accident, King says that he tried to "give too much importance to the event". The novel Misery, it's also about a writer who experience very serious injury due to a car accident, but the novel is mainly focused on the mental illness of a devout follower that attends to the writer.

Works

Some novels

• Carrie

• (Pet Sematary)

• (Four Past Midnight)

• The four after midnight by Stephen King:

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