Stephen King Writer Biography

Quotes about the author of Stephen King - an American writer creating horrors, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, mystical novels and drama, winner of the Bram Stoker and O. Henry, the World Fantasy Awards, the awards of the British Society of Fantasy and the Canadian Association of Book Ghosts, the National Fund of Books for an outstanding contribution to the American Literature, the title of great master from American mystics writers, the US national medal in the field of arts with the formulation "for a combination of exciting stories with an analysis of human nature." Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21 in Portland of the American state of Man in the family of a commercial captain.

His mother, according to doctors, was barren. However, a miracle happened: Stephen was born. Once his father changed his family - he became a salesman selling vacuum cleaners.

But this did not help him get rid of the feeling that he lives unhappy. And therefore, one evening, leaving the house to the store for cigarettes, he no longer returned. Mom had no choice but to come up with a story that he was abducted by the aliens. Up to a year, it was unclear what really happened to him. Only during the filming of a documentary cinema about King CBS, did the investigation method calculate that before his death in the year the writer’s father lived in a small town of Wind-GEP of the state of Pennsylvania with another family-a wife-brousilian and four children.

Not wanting to harm the consolidated relatives because of a two-way father, King decided to leave this information uninhabited. The unfair act of his father, who made Stephen live in poverty and from childhood to understand what inequality was reflected in the further worldview of the writer. His mother is a pianist by training, but she worked as a servant and a saleswoman, transporting children from state to state: Illinois - Indiana - Massachusetts - Wisconsin - Connecticut.

As a result, the family on the state of Maine stopped, settling in the western Darema. King grew up with a painful guy: he suffered measles, acute pharyngitis and a ear infection. This provoked his lag behind the school curriculum, and he had to stay in the first grade in the second year. In addition, in childhood, he also survived a psychological trauma: before his eyes, a comrade died under the wheels of a freight train.

Stephen King: The boy loved the first steps to read books and comics, watch horror -looking on a TV - he liked it when they mastered a sense of fear. Therefore, with the approval of his mother at the age of seven, he began to compose various stories on his own. His first story was about a white rabbit and three of his friends-zvers, saving from the troubles of children. Mom praised his undertaking and for continuing the adventures of the rabbit paid him twenty -five cents.

In the year, together with his older brother David King, he began to publish his own city information and entertainment newspaper called “Dave List” on the old Mimeographer, and five cents were sold at a copy. In the year, he wrote a collection of stories "People, places and things." At the age of fourteen, he created a story from the film “Well and the Pendulum” and printed it for sale by a quarter of classmates in forty copies, for which he was expelled from school.

So the Daremsk secondary school opened the doors for him. He graduated there the eighth grade with honors and transferred to the Lisbon-Hai school in the year. King later began to try to contact various magazines and publishers. And after a huge series of failures in the year, one publication nevertheless responded: Comics Review magazine published the story “I was a teenager robbing graves”, renaming it in “in the twilight of horror”.

Stephen King: King graduated from a high school with a confident gait in the year and entered the University of Maine University in Orono for the specialization of “English literature”, to issue a bachelor's degree of bachelor in the year, and he was recognized as worthless to military service. Then he worked in the laundry and a teacher of English at a school in the city of Hampden, just to feed his family.

And once his wife, whom he met at the university, found in the garbage basket the draft of the novel “Carrie” and insisted that King finish him. So the fame and the opportunity to create all their free time fell into King, without worrying about the financial condition. Then even brighter works began to pour out from under his pen. For example, in the year, after moving to Baulder, Colorado King wrote the novel “Shine”.

But suddenly the writer began to seem that his success was not deserved, that recently, not brilliant ideas and texts have been working for him, but his name. And then he secretly decided to start working under the pseudonym Richard Bakhman in honor of his beloved music group Bachman-Turner Overdrive. And, of course, quite successfully. From this experiment appear: “rage”;.