The amazing person in

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• The amazing person in
• modern literature

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Early Life

• He was born on September 21 1947
• He has been writing since an early age
• In school, he wrote stories based on movies he
  had seen recently and sold them to his friends
• The stories were copied using a mimeo machine
  that his brother David used to copy a newspaper,
  "Dave's Rag," which he self-published. "Dave's
  Rag" was about local events, and King would often
  contribute. At around the age of thirteen, King
  discovered a box of his father's old books at his
  aunt's house, mainly horror and science fiction.
  He was immediately hooked on these genres.

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Stevie at University

• From 1966 to 1971, King studied English at
  University of Maine at Orono
• He wrote a column titled "King's Garbage Truck"
  in the university magazine
• He also met Tabitha Spruce they married in 1971
  
• King took on odd jobs to pay for his studies,
  including one at an industrial laundry. He used
  the experience to write the short story "The
  Mangler".
• He finished his university studies with a
  Bachelor of Arts in English and obtaining a
  certificate to teach high school

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Starting with trouble

• After finishing his university studies, King
  taught English at Hampden Academy in Hampden.
  During this time, he and his family lived in a
  trailer. He wrote short stories (most were
  published in men's magazines) to help make ends
  meet.
• King also developed a drinking problem which
  stayed with him for over a decade.
• During this period, King began a number of
  novels. One of his first ideas was of a young
  girl with psychic powers. However, he grew
  discouraged, and threw it into the trash. Tabitha
  later rescued it and encouraged him to finish it.
  After completing the novel, he titled it Carrie,
  sent it to Doubleday, and more or less forgot
  about it. Later, he received an offer to buy it
  with a 2,500 advance (not a large advance for a
  novel, even at that time). Shortly after, the
  value of Carrie was realized with the paperback
  rights being sold for 400,000 (with 200,000 of
  it going to the publisher). Shortly after its
  release, his mother died of uterine cancer. She
  had the novel read to her before she died.

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An accident, first time

• In the summer of 1999, King was in the middle of
  On Writing A Memoir of the Craft. At the time,
  he had finished the memoir section and had
  abandoned the book for nearly eighteen months,
  unsure of how to procee. King reports that it was
  the first book that he'd abandoned since writing
  The Stand decades earlier. He had just decided to
  continue the book. On June 17, he had written up
  a list of questions that he was frequently asked
  about writing, as well as some that he wished he
  would be asked about it on June 18, he had
  written four pages of the section on writing.
• On June 19, about 430 PM, he was walking on the
  right shoulder of Route 5 in North Lovell. Driver
  Bryan Smith, distracted by an unrestrained
  Rottweiler moving in the back of his 1985 Dodge
  Caravan, struck King, who landed in a depression
  about 14 feet (4 meters) from the pavement of
  Route 5.

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Tell me how do you write

• He is known for his great eye for detail, for
  continuity, and for inside references many
  stories that may seem unrelated are often linked
  by secondary characters, fictional towns, or
  off-hand references to events in previous books
• King is also known for his folksy, informal
  narration, often referring to his fans as
  "Constant Readers" or "friends and neighbors." He
  uses this style to contrast with the often gory
  or scary content of many of his stories
• King has a very simple formula for learning to
  write well "Read four hours a day and write four
  hours a day. If you cannot find the time for
  that, you can't expect to become a good writer."

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Quotes

• "In the vast class of victims there is a
  subclass the victim of victims."
• The Stand
• "People want to know why I do this, why I write
  such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have
  the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a
  jar on my desk." (King's source for this was
  Robert Bloch.)
• You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops
  down in your favorite chair and stays as long as
  it wants.
• Stephen King, "Hearts in Atlantis
• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most
  useful tool.
• I work until beer oclock.

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Bibliography (Contains some Unpublished or
unfinished Novels)

• 1959 Charlie(unpublished shory story)
• 1963 The Aftermath (an unpublished novel)
• 1970 Sword in the Darkness (aka Good Day
  Sunshine) (an unpublished novel)
• 1973 Blaze (aka Grand Theft Auto) (an unpublished
  novel)
• 1974 Carrie
• 1974 The House on Value Street (unpublished and
  unfinished0
• 1975 'Salem's Lot
• 1976 Welcome to Clearwater (unpublished and
  unfinished)
• 1976 The Corner (unpublished and unfinished)
• 1977 Rage (as Richard Bachman)
• 1977 The Shining
• 1977 Wimsey (unpublished and unfinished)
• 1978 Night Shift (stories)
• 1978 The Stand
• 1979 The Dead Zone
• 1979 The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman)
• 1980 Firestarter
• 1981 Cujo
• 1981 Danse Macabre (nonfiction about horror)

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And now something completely differentDiehardBas
eball Fan!!!

• Stephen King is a lifelong fan of the Boston Red
  Sox, and is frequently found at both home and
  away baseball games.
• In his private role as father, King helped coach
  his son Owen's Bangor West team to the Maine
  Little League Championship in 1989. This
  experience is recounted in the New Yorker essay
  Head Down, which also appears in the collection
  Nightmares and Dreamscapes. King has called Head
  Down his best piece of nonfiction writing.
• In 1999 King wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon,
  which involved former Red Sox team member Tom
  Gordon as a major character. King recently
  co-wrote a book entitled Faithful Two Diehard
  Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004
  Season with Stewart O'Nan. This work recounts the
  authors' roller coaster reaction to the Red Sox's
  2004 season, a season culminating in the Sox
  winning the 2004 American League Championship
  Series and World Series.
• In 2002, a Little League stadium opened in
  Bangor, Maine. This facility was made possible
  through the efforts and donations of King and his
  wife Tabitha.

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THE SCARY END?NEVER!!!