IN THE PRESS
His Story
His father left the family in 1949, leaving King to be raised in borderline poverty by his mother. He wrote short stories and a satirical newspaper while attending high school, and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1970 from University of Maine. In 1971 he began teaching high school English while he attempted to carve out a career as a writer. In 1973 his first novel, Carrie was sold to Doubleday for publication in 1974 with a pittance of an advance. In 1974, Signet bought the paperback rights to Carrie for $400,000 and King’s writing career was born.
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His BOOKS
Doctor Sleep
The Shining
The book describes Stephen King's personal experience. The main character gets into a accident at his job site. The character loses one arm and begins to battle a bouts of rage during his long recovery that causes his wife to leave him. But not all his stories are the exact same as his personal experience. Stephen king got into a fatal car accident, but he did not lose an arm. In the book, there was a divorce, while in stephen kings personal experience was at a risk of losing his wife due to his addiction.
'I wanted to grab them and hit them,' he has admitted. 'Even though I didn't do it, I felt guilty because of my brutal impulses. I wasn't prepared for the realities of fatherhood.'
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Stephen king Though that if he wrote about something horrible that it wouldn't happen to him
These two books aren't really about Stephen Kings experience, its more about his attitude/feelings towards people. Once King started getting rejection letters from publishers, when he was drunk, he would focus his anger towards his kids.
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Website of Best Selling Author
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones"
Stephen King
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"If I had to say which side of King I value most, the unflinching observer or the visionary fantasist, I’d have to choose the latter. There are lots of writers who tell it like it is, but only a few who, with such commitment and intensity, tell it like it isn’t. King takes the weird and gives it weight. And yet, at the same time, his novels retain a lightness, a playfulness. They show us horrible things, but they also glow, I think, with King’s joy—with his pleasure and exhilaration in imagining."
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"For King, drinking alcohol and using drugs helped provide an escape from the unhappiness which has dogged him since he was a child.
As he grew up, he discovered that he could only deal with these bogeymen by writing stories about them, rattling away so furiously on his second-hand typewriter that the letter M eventually broke off and he had to write in the missing letters by hand.
He felt that if he wrote about something bad that it won't happen, so for example he said that he wanted to hurt his children so he wrote about something worse so it won't happen.
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​Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an famous American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He is known for his traditional Gothic style that has modern psychological twists.