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Name: Stephen King
Date of birth: September 21, 1947 (68 years old)
zodiac sign: Virgo Place of birth: Portland, Maine, USA.
Activity: writer, screenwriter
Weight: 90 kg
Height: 195 cm
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Biography of Stephen King
Childhood and family of Stephen King
The future writer was born in Maine.
He had an older brother, whom his parents adopted two years before Stephen was born.
His name is David.
The boy was only two years old when his father left the family.
My mother was a strong woman, she did not lose heart, raising two sons herself.
Numerous relatives helped her in this.
The family lived in different cities until they settled in the town of Dorham, in his native state of Maine.
There, my mother looked after her elderly parents, and after their death, she got a job as a housekeeper in one of the institutions.
The brothers went to school in Dorham.
Writer Stephen King as a child
Even at a time when the family moved a lot, living with relatives, seven year old Stephen found a box of horror films and science fiction in the attic of one of his aunts ' house.
These books made a strong impression on the boy.
The first stories of Stephen King
When Stephen was twelve, he and his brother decided to publish their own newspaper.
They gave it the name "Dave's Mustard Plaster".
Stephen, on the other hand, wrote a story with a sequel in each issue.
The boys distributed the newspaper for five cents.
Their customers were usually neighbors and relatives.
Stephen had a classmate, Chris Chesley.
Together they decided to publish a collection of short stories.
It was called "People, Places and Creatures".
The first story of an aspiring writer was published for real in Comics Review.
During his school years, he participated in the publication of the school newspaper "Baraban".
He had no doubt that he wanted to choose the profession of a writer, he liked to write, and this is what the boy wanted to do all his life.
Already as a high school student, the young man could not decide whether to go straight to university, or to go to Vietnam as a volunteer, where he wanted to collect interesting material for future works.
Steve had poor eyesight, his mother dissuaded him from military service.
So, after school, he entered the University.
To earn money for training, the young man began to work additionally at a weaving factory.
The first books of Stephen King
From the very first year, King wrote.
At first, he worked on the novel "Put up with it", then a full fledged novel with the title "Long Walk" followed.
The novice writer sent the latter to the publisher, but he was refused publication, which is why the" Long Walk " was postponed by the author for a long time.
Stephen King terribly pleased the fans
The student newspaper did not remain without Stephen's attention, he wrote a separate column in it.
In 1969, as a senior, King began working at the university library.
It was there that King met Tabitha Spruce, who soon became his wife.
It was there that King met Tabitha Spruce, who soon became his wife.
After graduating from the university, the young man became a bachelor of English and had the right to teach at a secondary school.
He had no experience, so it was not easy to get a job in the specialty.
At first, Stephen worked in the laundry, receiving very little.
From time to time, his stories were published in men's magazines.
Tabitha worked as a waitress.
In the first three years of their marriage, Stephen had two children.
The financial situation of the family was not easy.
In 1971, the young father finally got a job as a teacher at the school.
The family lived in the town of Hermon in a trailer.
On weekends and in the evenings, he wrote novels.
King sent what he wrote to publishers, but all the novels were rejected.
Tabitha also tried to write.
She chose the confessional genre.
The young mother had little free time, so the stories were unfinished, no one was interested in them.
The best books by Stephen King
There was a moment in the writer's life that in many ways became decisive for his work.
Tabitha once found several draft pages of a novel in the trash basket, which her husband threw away, considering them unsuccessful.
It was a novel about a girl with paranormal abilities and how her classmates" poisoned " her for this.
Tabitha persuaded her husband to continue the novel, being sure that this story would be interesting to readers and publishers.
The writer Stephen King now continues to write horror books
The Doubleday publishing house undertook to print a novel called "Carrie"by the author.
Stephen was paid two and a half thousand in advance.
The publisher was able to sell the rights to publish the novel to a third party publisher, having received four hundred thousand, of which the author was paid half.
From that moment on, Stephen could not work at school, he took up writing daily.
Tabitha also began to write and publish, but she did not become so popular, in comparison with her husband.
The popularity that has come - the nightmares of Stephen King
King worked on "The Fate of Salem" and "The Shining" and by 1975 he was able to move the family to his own house, located in the lakes region in western Maine.
There he began to write "Confrontation" and "The Dead Zone".
Soon he decided to cooperate with another publishing house, which was called "New American Librarie".
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How to write books" is an autobiographical work.
In it, King talks about the years of his life when he drank a lot and even used drugs.
There are a number of his works, about the writing of which he does not remember anything.
Among them are "Tomminokers" and "Cujo".
During that difficult period, the author wrote many bright works: "Losing Weight", "Corpse", "Running Man", "Kristina", etc.
Only in 1987, Stephen was able to leave his addictions thanks to his wife.
Maximum Acceleration 1986 film by Stephen King
King published some of his novels under the name Richard Bachman.
This Bachman "wrote" a number of books and even managed to become a cult author.
Only a few years later, this small deception was exposed, and King took it quite calmly.
Some novels were adapted into films, but often Stephen did not agree with the vision and opinion of the directors regarding these novels.
Because of this, he himself took up writing scripts and directing.
It was the year 1985.
A tragedy in the life of the writer, Stephen King at the present Time
In the summer of 1999, the writer was hit by a car during his daily walk.
He received very serious injuries, and local doctors decided to urgently transport him by helicopter to the Maine Medical Center.
King was in the hospital for three weeks, but as soon as he got out and recovered a little, he started writing again.
In 2002, he announced that he would no longer write, since he had almost no interesting ideas.
He planned to stop his literary activity after writing "The Dark Tower".
However, the creative "abstinence" did not last long.
After writing "The Dark Tower", the author began working on the documentary book "The Fan", followed by the novels "The Story of Lisa", "Mobile Phone", "Blaze", etc.
The writer continues to work on new novels even today.
The personal life of Stephen King
King plays the guitar quite well and even performs with the "Rock Bottom Reminders", which is an amateur rock band.
Their singing and playing are not perfect, but the performers do it from the bottom of their hearts.
Because of his love for rock music, Stephen bought the radio station VZON, which specializes in sports events, and the rock radio station VKIT.
The novelist's favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox.
He often goes to the stadium to cheer for his favorite athletes.
The King couple own three houses.
They have three children and grandchildren.
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