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Stephen King Stephen King
At a meeting with fans, Birth name: Stephen Edwin King
Pseudonyms: Richard Bachman
John Swift
Date of birth: September 21, 1947 (1947-09-21) [1] (68 years old)
Place of birth: Portland, Maine, USA
Citizenship (citizenship): USA
Occupation: novelist
author of short stories
screenwriter
journalist
actor
television producer
director
Years of creativity: 1959 present.
time
Genre: Horror
epistolary prose
gothic literature
post apocalypse
thriller
Science fiction
fantasy
detective
Language of works: English
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Stephen Edwin King (eng.
Stephen Edwin King; b.
September 21, 1947, Portland, Maine, USA) is an American writer working in a variety of genres, including horror, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, drama; he received the nickname "The King of Horrors".
More than 350 million copies of his books have been sold[2], based on which a number of feature films, television productions, and comics have been drawn.
King has published 50 novels, including 7 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, and 5 non fiction books.
He wrote about 200 short stories, most of which were collected in nine author's collections.
Many of King's works are set in his native state of Maine.
Content
1 Biography 2 The beginning of his creative path 3 Success 4 Car accident 5 Further career 6 Film Adaptations of works 7 Filmography of Stephen King 8 Opinion about modern Culture 9 Criticism 10 Political activity 11 Personal life 12 Awards 13 Stephen King in popular culture 14 See also 15 Notes 16 Literature 17 References
Biography[edit / edit wiki text]
Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, to Merchant Marine captain Donald Edward King and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury, who were already raising a two year old adopted son, David Victor (The Kings went to adopt a newborn boy in September 1945, when doctors reported that Ruth would not be able to bear her children; the diagnosis of "infertility" turned out to be erroneous)[3].
Translated from English, his surname King means "king".
The writer owes his surname to his father, who changed his Polish surname " Spenski "to the more sonorous English"King".
In 1949, when Stephen was two years old, his father Donald left the house one evening for cigarettes and did not return.
His fate remained unclear for a long time for Stephen and David, until in the late 1990s they learned that their father had started another family and lived nearby with his wife from Brazil with four children, until he died in 1980.
In 1949-1958, Ruth, David and Stephen King spent several years moving from place to place.
They managed to live in Chicago, in Fort Wayne (Indiana), in Malden (Massachusetts), in West De Pere (Wisconsin), in Stratford (Connecticut), until they finally settled in West Durham, a town 30 miles from Scarborough (Maine).
As a child, Stephen witnessed the death of his peer who was hit by a freight train — a circumstance that Steve himself, according to his own words, completely forgot about, having suffered a state of shock, but remembered a few years later when he was told about it.
Due to frequent travel and poor health, Stephen suffered from measles, then acute pharyngitis, which eventually spread to his ears and turned into an extremely unpleasant form of ear infection that could not be treated with antibiotics.
I had to seek medical help from an otolaryngologist, who pierced the boy's eardrum three times with a sterile needle to drain the infected fluid.
According to King's recollections, more than the hellish pain of punctures, he was tormented by the consciousness that the doctor had lied all three times, saying that it would not hurt, and he himself did not even bother to remember the patient's name.
Due to illness, Stephen had to stay in the first grade for the second year.
Distracting from the pain, the boy, with the encouragement of his mother, began to write small stories from the age of 12 — the first of them was called "Mr. Sly Rabbit" and told about a white rabbit and three of his friends animals traveling around the city in search of children in trouble to help them out[4].
At the same time, the boy is passionately fond of reading books, mass viewing of horror comics (such as "Tales from the Crypt", "Tomb of Horrors", "Crypt of Horror", "Madness", "Spider Man", "Superman", "Hulk") and movies (especially black and white and second rate "horror movies").
The very first horror movie that he watched was "The Creature from the Black Lagoon", Stephen was really scared after watching the cartoon "Bambi" — because of the scene of a forest fire, the boy had nightmares for several weeks.
He also remembers listening to Ray Bradbury's radio play "Mars is Paradise" [4].
In the late 1950s, the attention of eleven year old Steve, like most Americans, was captured by a series of bloody atrocities committed by 19 year old Charles Starkweather and his 14 year old girlfriend Caryl Fugate (together they killed 11 people in Nebraska and Wyoming).
Stephen collected a whole album of newspaper clippings about Starkweather's crimes.
The beginning of a creative path[edit / edit wiki text]
Main article: Bibliography of Stephen King
Stephen began his career as a writer in January 1959, when, together with his older brother David, he decided to publish his own local city newspaper.
The brothers created a local news bulletin called "Dave's Leaf", reproduced each issue on an old mimeograph and distributed it to their neighbors in West Durham for 5 cents per copy.
Dave was responsible for local news, and Steve wrote reviews of his favorite TV shows and movies, as well as short stories.
Around the same time, the boy got acquainted with the work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who became one of his favorite authors; in an interview in 2009, King said that one day, rummaging through a pile of old father's books in the attic, he found a collection of Lovecraft stories in a soft yellow cover.
This collection was called "Lurking in the Shadows", and when reading all these sinister stories, Steve experienced a feeling of "coming home" [5].
... it happened when I was about thirteen or fifteen and I firmly believe that this is the ideal age for reading Lovecraft.
Lovecraft's prose is ideal for people living in a state of oppressive sexual insecurity: in my opinion, there is something Jungian in the imagery of his stories.
They are all about giant impersonal vaginas and creatures with teeth.
The original text (English)
It did at the time, when I was 13, 14, 15 — which I maintain is the perfect age to read Lovecraft.
Lovecraft is the perfect fiction for people who are living in a state of sort of total sexual doubt, because the stories almost seem to me sort of Jungian in their imagery.
They’re all about gigantic disembodied vaginas and things that have teeth.
— Andrew O’Hehir.
«The Salon Interview: Stephen King»[6]
In 1960, he and his friend Chris Chesley published several short stories in a self made collection "People, Places and Things" (English: People, Places and Things).
A year later, the second book was published, "Star Invaders" (eng.
The Star Invaders).
In 1966, King graduated from high school and entered the University of Maine, where he met his future wife, Tabitha Spruce[7].
Among King's teachers was the famous literary critic Carroll Terrell, who later published a book about his student "Stephen King: Man and Artist" (English Stephen King: man and artist; 1990).
In 1970, King graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree, and he was declared unfit for military service.
At first, the family experienced financial difficulties, they lived on King's salary in the laundry, his wife's student loan and King's rare royalties for publishing stories in magazines.
At this time, they had a son and a daughter.
In 1971, King married Tabitha.
In the autumn of the same year, he began working as an English teacher at a school in Hampden His wife found a draft of the novel "Carrie" in the trash, which King considered unsuccessful, and insisted that King finish it.
On December 18, 1973, Stephen's mother, Ruth King, died in Mexico City, at the home of his brother Dave.
In 1974, Doubleday published the novel Carrie, for which King received an advance of $ 2,500.
Then the publishing house sold the copyright to "Carrie" to the publishing house " NAL " for $400,000, of which King received half, which allowed him to leave his job at the school.
In the fall of 1974, King moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he lived for a year, and during this time wrote the novel "The Shining".
In the late 1970s, King, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, published his early novel "Put up with It" under the title "Rage".
The book was withdrawn from sale, after real cases of school shootings began to occur in Kansas, a juvenile delinquent who killed three of his classmates was found to have an edition of this book, after which the author himself decided to withdraw the book from sale[8].
When asked many years later why he was writing, King replied:
The answer to this question is quite simple, there is nothing else that I would like to do.
I started writing short stories because I like to write short stories.
That's why I'm doing this.
I really canot imagine that I will do something else, and I canot imagine that I wonot do what I do[9].
Success[edit / edit wiki text]
Stephen King at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge
Around 1977, it was time for young filmmakers.
As a rule, these were senior students, many wrote to him that they wanted to film some of his short stories, such as"Night Shift".
Despite the objections of the adviser, who saw a huge number of potential legal problems in this, King introduced a policy that he adheres to this day.
He is ready to give any student director the opportunity to screen one of his short stories (not a novel, it would be ridiculous), only after he signs a paper according to which he promises that without the approval of S. King himself, which he will give, after viewing the finished version of the film sent to him, no film will go into wide distribution.
For this right, he asks for one dollar.
He called it a dollar deal.
His accountant grabbed his head every time at the time of signing the contract, this has already happened 16-17 times [10].
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stephen King published the books "Rage", "Long Walk", "Road Works", "Running Man", and "Losing Weight"under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
The idea was to see if he could repeat his success again, as he was afraid that his success was an accident, a combination of circumstances.
There is another explanation, which is that the publication standards of that time allowed only one book per year[11].
The surname Bachman was not taken by chance, he is a fan of the musical group "Bachman Turner Overdrive" [12].
The pseudonym Richard Bachman was exposed by a bookstore clerk from Washington, Steve Brown, who noticed similarities between King's old works and Bachman's new works, he found King's last name on one of Bachman's novels in the Library of Congress[13].
This led to a press release foreshadowing the imminent death of Bachman, allegedly from "cancer".
This pseudonym has a fictional biography.
The books of Bachman, allegedly deceased (who died of "pseudonym cancer"[14]), were also published by his fictional widow, Claudia Innes Bachman.
Interestingly, Claudia is mentioned in the cycle "The Dark Tower" as the author of the book "Charlie Choo Choo" in the key world (in other worlds, the author is the fictional Beryl Evans).
In the book, her name is spelled differently (Claudia and Innes Bachman — 19 letters).
We can say that Claudia Bachman is also King's pseudonym.
King also used other pseudonyms, such as John Sweeten for the novel "The Fifth Quarter".
King dedicated his 1989 book "The Dark Half" to this story, about how the pseudonym became flesh and took the place of the writer, "dedicated to the late Richard Bachman", and in 1996, when Stephen King's novel "Hopelessness" was published, and with it the novel "Regulators", where the last name Bachman was indicated as the author.
In 1982, the book "The Shooter" appeared — the first novel from the series "The Dark Tower".
In the same year, in just 10 days, he wrote a 304 page novel "The Running Man", which he told about in "Memoirs of the Craft".
In 1985, Stephen King admitted that he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
In 1989, King signed a contract with the publishing house "Viking", according to which he was supposed to receive $35 million for the next four books, but in 1997 he terminated it, because he planned to receive $17 million for the book"Bag of Bones".
To do this, he signed a new contract with the publishing house "Simon & Schuster", under which he received $8 million in advance for the book and 50% of sales revenue.
In 1996, The Green Mile was written.
In 1998, King became the author of the script for one of the episodes of the popular TV series of that time "The X Files".
The series titled "Chinga" aired on February 8 on Fox, starring actors Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.
In 2006, during a press conference in London, King announced that he had found another Bachman novel, called "Blaze" [15].
It was published on June 12, 2007.
In fact, the original manuscript was written by King while studying at the University of Maine and was kept there for many years, and King was listed as an expert.
King completely rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for publication.
Car accident[edit / edit wiki text]
On June 19, 1999, in Lovell, Maine at about 16: 30, while walking King, driver Brian Smith was distracted by his dog, as a result of which he ran over King in his minibus, which flew into a ditch and rolled into a hole located 14 feet from the pavement of route 5.
According to a statement by Oxford County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Baker, King was hit from behind, some witnesses reported that the driver was not speeding, he was also not drunk[16][17].
King was conscious enough to give the family numbers to the deputy sheriff to contact his family, but he was in pain.
The author was first taken to the North Cumberland Hospital in Bridgeton, and then was taken by helicopter to the Maine Central Medical Center in Lewiston.
He suffered a damaged right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, a head wound and a femoral fracture, and was kept on an artificial respiration machine until July 9.
The damage to the leg was so great that the doctors initially proposed amputation, but they managed to save the leg thanks to a rigid fixation.
After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King began writing again in July, although his femur was still broken and he could only sit for about forty minutes before the pain worsened and soon became unbearable[18].
He later described this event in his memoirs "How to Write Books "and in the seventh part of" The Dark Tower", including introducing the" sacred " numbers — 19 and 99 into the plot.
King also took part in the creation of a mini TV series of fifteen episodes called "The Royal Hospital", which features a similar event.
Later, King's lawyer and his attorneys tried to prevent the sale of Brian Smith's minivan that hit him from eBay and buy it.
But to the great disappointment of King, the minivan was still sold, and was later crushed in a landfill.
King dreamed of smashing it with a baseball bat after he could walk.
In an interview for the magazine "Fresh Air", given to Terry Gross, he admitted that after he would still like to completely destroy the car.
During this time, Tabitha King was engaged in the design of his studio.
After King visited there, he said that he saw what his studio would look like if he died — this gave him ideas for the novel "The Story of Lizzie"[19].
On September 21, 2001, on the author's birthday, two years after the accident, Brian Smith, the culprit of the car accident, died of a drug overdose, which became known during an interview with King in the same year on the "Early Show" [20].
In 2002, King announced that he was stopping writing — apparently, this was due to the injuries he received, which did not allow him to sit still.
A lot of time has passed since then and he has started writing again, but he answers the question: - "Is it true that you resigned?" - as follows:
Not yet.
I write, but I write at a much slower pace than before, but I think that if I came up with something very, very good, I would forget about everything, because it's fascinating, the creative process itself, its publication and reaction to it, the opportunity to let people read it as soon as possible, the opportunity to get feedback and the opportunity to talk about it with people, give them food for thought, but my productivity has fallen, partly due to age, but this is how it should be.
I am no longer 25 years old or even 35, I am 55 years old, I already have grandchildren, a couple of babies in the house, and a lot of things need to be done besides creativity, and this is fine, but creativity still plays a huge role in my life and in everyday everyday life[21].
Further career[edit / edit wiki text]
In 2001, the novel "Dreamcatcher" was published.
In 2004, the last part of the epic "The Dark Tower" was released, which, according to the writer's promises, should be his last work.
But King does not keep his promise and continues to publish books.
In 2006, the novel "The Story of Lizi" was published.
In 2008, a collection of short stories "After Sunset" and a novel "Duma Ki"were published.
In 2009, Stephen King finally published the novel "Under the Dome", which he tried unsuccessfully to write twice in the 1970s and 1980s[22][23], and a collection of five adapted short stories by the author "Stephen King goes to the movies".
In 2010, a collection of short stories "Darkness — and nothing else" was published.
In 2011, the novel "11/22/63" was published.
In 2012, the eighth volume of the cycle about the Dark Tower, "The Wind through the Keyhole"was published[24].
King also wrote two novels: "Doctor Sleep", the sequel to the novel "The Shining", and "The Land of Joy", written in the detective genre.
Both novels were released in 2013.
In addition, in 2010, King starred in the 3rd episode of the 3rd season of the TV series "Sons of Anarchy" as a cleaner named Bachman[25].
In 2011, he became the hero of comic books written by Michael Lent and Brian McCarthy, which were based on his biography[26].
In 2014, the novels "Mr. Mercedes" and "Rebirth"were published.
On June 2, 2015, the novel "Who Found It, takes it for himself", a continuation of the novel "Mr. Mercedes", was released.
In 2015, two anthologies of horror stories "The Book of Horrors" and "Evening Light"were published.
The" Book of Horrors "included King's story" The Little Green God of Suffering", and the" Evening Light "included the story "Summer Thunder".
On June 7, 2016, the third part of "Mr. Mercedes" will be released, the new part will be called "The End of the Watch"[27].
Film adaptations of works[edit / edit wiki text]
Main article: Film adaptations of the works of Stephen King
Filmography of Stephen King[edit / edit wiki text]
Main article: Filmography of Stephen King
Opinion about modern culture[edit / edit wiki text]
King derived his formula in order to learn how to write well:
Read and write from four to six hours a day.
If you canot find the time for this, you canot expect to become a good writer[28][29].
He has set a quota for himself 2000 words every day — and does not stop until it is fulfilled.
He also came up with a simple definition for writing talent:
If you wrote something for which you were sent a check, and you cashed the check, and then you paid for electricity with this money, then I think you are talented![30]
Shortly after he was hit by a car[31], King wrote the first version of the book" Dreamcatcher", using a notebook and a fountain pen from the company" Waterman", which he called"the best text editor in the world".
King often uses writers as the heroes of his novels or includes references to fictional books in short stories and novellas, such as Paul Sheldon, the main character in "Misery" and Jack Torrance in "The Shining", he is also the creator of the fictional town of Castle Rock.
In September 2009, it was announced that he would be writing for Fangoria.
He is also often asked why he writes such terrible stories, to which he answers with another question:
Why do you think I have a choice?[9]
King communicated with the creators of the television series "Lost", their conversation can be read on the pages of the newspaper "Entertainment Weekly"[32] Rumors that King wrote a book related to the series "The Sinister Twin" under the pseudonym Gary Traup were not confirmed.
The author" loves "the dog Snoopy very much, " mentions him in almost every novel"[33].
King is a fan of the punk band "Ramones".
The refrain from their cult song "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Hey ho, let's go!" became the epigraph to the second part of the novel "Pet Cemetery".
As a sign of appreciation, the Ramones wrote the song "Pet Sematary" (iskazh. English "Pet Cemetery"), which sounds in the film of the same name.
He likes the novel "Harry Potter"by J. K. Rowling.
Once he answered the question "Will children and adults be delighted with Harry in 100 years or 200?" like this:
It seems to me that they will stand the test of time and settle on the shelf where all the best is stored;
I think Harry will stand on a par with Alice and Frodo, and this series of books is not for a decade, but for centuries...[34]
Criticism[edit / edit wiki text]
Most of the critics were favorable to King, with the exception of the story with the award of the prize to him.
Science fiction writers John Klute and Peter Nichols give mostly positive assessments of his work, noting the following: "The sharpness of his prose, attention to dialogue, a disarmingly relaxed and frank style of presentation, a passionate, furious denunciation of human stupidity and cruelty, especially children, all together makes him a truly popular writer."
In his 1990 book The Philosophy of Horror, Noel Carroll writes about King's work as an example of modern horror literature.
Analyzing the narrative style of King's fiction and his other works that are not related to fiction, reflecting on the art of presenting his thoughts, he writes that for King, "horror is always a competition between the normal and the abnormal, in which the normal will again become dominant in the final."
The critic S. T. Joshi, in his 2001 book Modern Fairy Tales, devoted one of the chapters to King's work.
Joshi writes that King is most widely known for his "supernatural" creativity, while at the same time describing his stories as illogical, bloated, whiny, prone to a melodramatic ending.
Joshi believes that King draws strength from the experience that is available to everyone, as can be seen from his constant references to the pain and joy of youth.
Joshi considers the novels "Rage" (1977) and "The Running Man" (1982) to be the best in King's work — thanks to a well constructed plot and plausible characters.
In 1996, King's short story "The Man in the Black Suit" won the O. Henry Award[35].
Writer Jeffrey Deaver, in his collection of short stories "The Age of Great Uncertainty of History", noted that King "single handedly popularized the fantasy genre".
Although there were many well selling writers before him, King, more than anyone since John D. MacDonald, brought popularity to the genre of the novel.
Thanks to the rich characteristics of the characters, careful and caring attention to detail, plot development and character transformation, he showed that writers can make such topics as vampirism relevant again.
Many popular writers before King made their efforts to the horror genre, but, alas, they were not so good.
It was these details that made him popular, which is why he is a "master of masters".
In 2003, King was awarded the National Book Award for Outstanding Contribution to American Literature.
Some literary circles expressed dissatisfaction with this decision: Richard Snyder, the former CEO of Simon & Schuster, called King's works "not literature", literary critic Harold Bloom also condemned the jury's choice:
The decision to award the National Book Foundation's annual award for "Outstanding Contribution" to Stephen King is incredible, another example of the shocking process of degradation of our country's culture.
In the past, I have described King as a writer who is "worthless", but perhaps I was too kind.
His works have nothing in common with Edgar Allan Poe.
He is inadequate, as is his work, and this is evident in every book of his [36].
However, not everyone agreed with this, for example, the writer Orson Card expressed himself as follows:
Let me assure you that King's works are certainly literature, because they are written for publication and reading.
What Snyder really meant was that this is not literature, which is preferred by the scientific and literary elite[37].
In 2004, film critic Roger Ebert wrote in a review of the film "The Secret Window" :
Many people were outraged that King was awarded the National Book Award, since a popular writer cannot be taken seriously.
But I find his work "How to write books" more useful and informative than the book "Elements of Style" Stranka and Uwaita[38].
Political activity[edit / edit wiki text]
In April 2008, King opposed bill number 1423, pending in Massachusetts (a law aimed at restricting or prohibiting the sale of violent video games to persons under the age of 18).
Although King stated that he has no personal interest in this issue, he sharply criticized the draft law, which he believes is an attempt by politicians to exercise control over pop culture, as surrogate parents for other people's children, which he considers "catastrophic" and "not democratic"[39].
He also saw contradictions in the law, for example, how to prohibit a 17 year old from watching "Hostel 2", how to prevent him from buying or being able to borrow" Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", which is violent, but less violent[40].
He agreed that he did not see any artistic merit in some violent video games, King also said that such games reflect violence that already exists in society and the law is not able to cope with it and would be superfluous in light of the rating system that already exists for video games.
King believes that such laws allow lawmakers to ignore the economic gap between rich and poor and the easy availability of weapons, which he believes is the cause of violence[41].
Regarding video games, he later stated that he likes to play shooters, arcade games, such as "Time of Crisis".
Interestingly, King himself and his work have repeatedly flashed in video games, so in the first part of the video game "Silent Hill" there are several "Easter eggs" referring to the work of King, and in the game "Alan Wake", the main character of which is a writer in the genre of horror and thriller, says that he was inspired by the work of the King of Horrors at a young age.
After a conservative blogger posted a clip of King holding readings at the Library of Congress on May 5, 2008, a small scandal arose.
King, talking to schoolchildren, said: "If you are able to learn to read, you can afford a job that you can come to later, if you could not even do that, then you always have the opportunity to join the army, go to Iraq or something like that"[42].
The comment to the recording read "another bashing of the military by liberals", and compared it with the statement of John Kerry from 2006[43].
King responded the same day, saying:
You question my patriotism, because I said that children should learn to read and be able to get a better job; thus, I live in the homeland of the National Guard, and I support our troops, but I do not support any war or educational policies that limit the opportunities of young women and men, giving them the opportunity to become only military[42][44].
King again defended his comment in an interview in the Daily News on May 8, saying:
I'm not going to apologize for the help that helps children get a better education at school, which means they get the opportunity to choose.
Those who disagree with me can stay with their opinion, because I'm not going to prove anything to them[45].
King's website states that he is a supporter of the Democratic Party.
During the 2008 presidential election, King expressed his support for the Democratic candidate Barack Obama[46].
On March 8, 2011, King spoke about a rally in Sarasota that was directed against Governor Rick Scott and his criticism of the"Tea Party Movement" [47].
In November of the same year, King donated $70,000 received from the income of his three radio stations in Maine[48] to help pay heating bills for needy families in his hometown of Bangor, Maine, during the winter[49].
On April 30, 2012, King published an article in the Daily Beast calling on rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, explaining this as "a practical necessity and a moral imperative, that those who have received more should also give more"[50].
Personal life[edit / edit wiki text]
Stephen King's House in Bangor
King and his wife own three houses, one in Bangor, one in Lovell, Maine, and in the winter they regularly visit the waterfront mansion located on the Gulf of Mexico, in Sarasota, Florida.
He and Tabitha have three children, Naomi, Joe and Owen, and three grandchildren. [7]
In 1999, a letter was published in the satirical newspaper "The Onion", allegedly from King, who stated that he could not remember how he wrote Tomminokers and several other novels, because "after the 50-60 novel everything merges"[51].
Although the article was only ironic about his exceptional fecundity, "writing", nevertheless, King's problems with alcohol and drug addiction in the 80s were so serious that in 2000 he admitted in "On Writing": "I really donot remember how I wrote Tomminokers and many other things published during the decade."
Shortly after the novel was published, his family and friends staged an intervention, collected evidence of his addiction taken from garbage, including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, valium, xanax and marijuana, and dumped it on the carpet in front of him.
As King writes in his memoirs, " after that, I turned to doctors, decided to stop not only with drugs, but also with alcohol," and since the late 1980s, he has remained sober.
The first novel he wrote after giving up drugs and alcohol was "Necessary Things" [52].
Tabitha King has published nine novels of her own.
Both of the writer's sons are published authors: Owen published his first collection of short stories, "We are All Together: Novellas and Short Stories", in 2005.
Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes under the professional pseudonym Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, "Ghosts of the 20th Century" , in 2005.
His debut novel, A Heart shaped Box, was published in 2007 and will be adapted into a feature film directed by Neil Jordan[53].
King's daughter Naomi is still in a relationship with a woman named Tandeka, who works as a school theology teacher[54].
King is a fan of baseball and the Boston Red Sox team in particular, he often attends the team's games, and sometimes mentions it in his novels and stories.
In 1992, the King couple sponsored the construction of the Mansfield Stadium[55], and in 2002, Stephen made the first "pitch" at the opening match of the International Senior Baseball League.
He helped coach his son Owen's Bangor West team to the Maine Minor League Championship in 1989.
He talks about his experience in the New Yorker through an essay called "Upside Down", which is also presented in the collection "Nightmares and Fantasies".
In 2014, Stephen King took part in the famous flash mob "Ice Bucket Challenge", the meaning of which is to pour ice water in front of the camera and raise charity funds for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis[56].
Awards[edit / edit wiki text]
For his work, King received the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, the award of the British Fantasy Society.
His novel "The Intermediate Station" was a candidate for the Nebula Award[57], and his short story "The Man in the Black Suit"received the O. Henry Award.
In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Outstanding contribution to American literature[58].
He has also received awards for his contribution to literature throughout his career, such as "For Contribution to World Fantasy" (2004), was awarded by the Canadian Booksellers Association (2007) and the title of Grand Master from the American Mystery Writers (2007)[59].
In 2014, he was awarded the US National Medal of Arts with the wording "for combining fascinating stories with an analysis of human nature".
Stephen King in popular culture[edit / edit wiki text]
In the 5th episode of the 3rd season of the science fiction series "Quantum Leap", the main character, Sam Beckett, tells the young King the plot of the novel "Christina" Drawn by Stephen King appears in the series " Insane Clown Poppy "of the American animated series"The Simpsons" [60][61].
The fifteenth episode of the seventh season of the animated series "Family Guy" called "Three stories by Stephen King" is dedicated to his works: "The Corpse" (film adaptation), "Misery" (film adaptation) and "Rita Hayworth and the Rescue from Shawshank" (film adaptation).
A drawn Stephen King appears in the middle of the cartoon.
See also[edit / edit wiki text]
Bibliography of Stephen King List of Stephen King Literary Awards Filmography of Stephen King Film adaptations of Stephen King's works by Joe Hill
Notes[edit / edit wiki text]
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↑ Robert Morgan, Stephen King, BBC Newsnight Wednesday, 22 November, 2006 ↑ Rogek L.
The Heart in which Fear Lives.
Stephen King: life and work.
- M.: AST; Astrel, 2011.
- p. 405.
↑ 1 2 "An Interview with Stephen King" by Phil Konstantin ↑ The transfer of "Stephen King" from the cycle "Barnes & Noble.
Meet the Writers (with Steve Bertrand)" (see by time 5: 45).
'Youtube' (November 3, 2009).
Checked on November 14, 2011.
Перевод Translation of the cit.
by: Rogek L.
The Heart in which Fear lives.
Stephen King: life and creativity / Lisa Rogek; translated from the English by N. Balashova.
- Moscow: AST: Astrel, 2011.
- pp.
52-53., original English text by Andrew O'Hehir:.
The Salon Interview — Stephen King (English) (September 24, 1998).
Checked on November 14, 2011.
Archived from the original source on February 3, 2012.
↑ 1 2 Stephen King, bio originally written by Tabitha King, updated by Marsha DeFilippo.
↑ King, Stephen: «Stephen King’s Keynote Address, Vermont Library Conference», VEMA Annual Meeting, May 26, 1999.
http://www.horrorking.com/interview7.html ↑ 1 2 Stephen King’s Advice to Writers ↑ Stephen king is often sells the rights to screen their works for one dollar ↑ Why did you write books as Richard Bachman?
↑ Bachman Turner Overdrive founder searched for Stephen King by Steve Newton on January 13, 2009 ↑ Steve Brown is the man who discovered that it was King that had written the Bachman book.
Here he tells the story of how it happened.
↑ Stephen king, "Why I was Bachman" ↑ It looks like there will be a readin of Blaze in the UK ↑ What Is Stephen King Trying to Prove?
By STEPHEN J. DUBNER August 13, 2000 ↑ CNN Horror author Stephen King was seriously injured when he was struck by a minivan while walking in North Lovell, Maine, Saturday, Maine State Police said June 20, 1999 ↑ Stephen King run down by distracted driver Monday 21 June 1999 ^ the Origin of Stephen King's novel, LISEY''S STORY ↑ King Video interview in 2001, he talks about his new novel the Dreamcatcher, the health and the death of Bryan Smith.
↑ Is it true that you have retired?
Not yet ↑ King’s Latest Cast Feels Real By JANET MASLIN Published: November 11, 2009 ↑ Stephen King’s Glass -Menagerie By JAMES PARKER Published: November 5, 2009 ↑ StephenKing.com is proud to announce The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole.
The next installment of the epic series is set for release in 2012.
↑ Flood, Alison Stephen King rides in to Sons of Anarchy TV cameo.
The Guardian (September 21, 2010).
↑ Exclusive art: Stephen King—the comic book!
↑ A new novel by Stephen King will be released in the summer of 2016 ↑ ["http://www.all science fair projects.com/science fair projects encyclopedia/Stephen King Writing Style Stephen King] ↑ by Stephen King, reprinted in Sylvia K. Burack, ed.
The Writer's Handbook.
Boston, MA: Writer, Inc., 1988: 3-9 ↑ Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully in Ten Minutes ↑ Horror master Stephen King struck by vehicle ↑ When Stephen King met the 'Lost' boys…
↑ Stephen King, the novel " The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon "(1999).
↑ Stephen King July 23, 2000 Wild About Harry The fourth novel in J. K. Rowling's fantastically successful series about a young wizard.
↑ Past winners list ↑ Dumbing down American readers By Harold Bloom, 9/24/2003 ↑ Uncle Orson Reviews Everything September 21, 2003 ↑ Secret Window BY ROGER EBERT / March 12, 2004 ↑ Stephen King Speaks Out Against Video Game Legislation Monday, April 07, 2008 ↑ Stephen King speaks out against anti videogame bill ↑ Stephen King on videogames By Stephen King | Apr 05, 2008 ↑ 1 2 Authors Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King discussed their writing with Washington, D.C., area high school students ↑ Writer Stephen King: If You Canot Read, You’ll End Up in the Army or Iraq ↑ Stephen King’s Third Explanation Still Unapologetic to Military ↑ Stephen king I'm not going to apologize for the help, thanks to which children get the best education in the school ↑ Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?
↑ King Speaks At Budget Cut Protest, Says Florida Governor Should Star In His Next Horror Novel ↑ Stephen King.
Everything is extremely.
- Moscow: AST, 2006.
- p.
8. ↑ Stephen King to donate $70,000 to heat Maine homes ↑ Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!
↑ I Donot Even Remember Writing The Tommyknockers ↑ Stephen King, The Art of Fiction No. 189 ↑ Neil Jordan To Direct the Heart Shaped Box ^ the King's daughter Naomi has entered into a marriage with a woman by the name of Tandek ↑ Built with funds donated to the city of Bangor in 1991 by best selling author and resident Stephen King, Shawn T. Mansfield Stadium ↑ Stephen King ALS Ice Bucket Challenge 19 08 2014 ↑ The Nebula Awards are given annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America, to acknowledge excellence in science fiction writing.
↑ Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Stephen King Introduction by Walter Mosley ↑ FORUMS du CLUB Stephen King (CSK) ↑ John Updike and James A. Schiff.
Updike in Cincinnati.
Ohio University Press, 2007.
26-27.
↑ Maxtone Graham, Ian.
The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "Insane Clown Poppy" [DVD].
20th Century Fox.
Literature[edit / edit wiki text]
Portal "Stephen King" Stephen King in Wikicitatnik?
Stephen King in Wikitek?
Stephen King on Wikimedia Commons?
Rogek L.
The heart in which fear lives.
Stephen King: life and work / Lisa Rogak; translated from the English by N. Balashova = Lisa Rogak.
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King (2008).
- Moscow: AST: Astrel, 2011.
— 411,[5]: 8 l.
il.
s .
— 4000 copies.
— ISBN 978-5-17-070665-5.
Ehrlichman V. V.
The King of the Dark Side.
Stephen King in America and Russia.
St. Petersburg, Amphora, 2006.
ISBN 5-367-00145-9.
Links[edit / edit wiki text]
The official website of the writer (English) The website of the Russian fan club of Stephen King Full bibliography of Stephen King on the website "Laboratory of Fiction" Stephen King's Keynote Address Article " American myth.
Stephen King "in the magazine " World of Fiction"
The Works of Stephen King The Dark Tower Cycle
The Shooter (1982) · Extraction of the Three (1987) · The Badlands (1991) · The Sorcerer and the Crystal (1997) * The Wolves of Calla (2003) · The Song of Susanna (2004) · The Dark Tower (2004) · The Wind through the Keyhole (2012)
Novels
Carrie (1974) · The lot (1975) · the Shining (1977) · the Opposition (1978) · the Dead zone (1979) · Firestarter (1980) · cujo (1981) · Christine (1983) · pet Sematary (1983) · Cycle of the werewolf (1983) · the Talisman (1984) · It (1986) · the Eyes of the dragon (1987) · misery (1987) · Tomminokery (1987) · the Dark half (1989) · needful things (1991) · Gerald's Game (1992) · Dolores Claiborne (1992) · Insomnia (1994) · rose madder (1995) · the Green mile (1996) · Hopelessness (1996) · Bag of bones (1998) · the Girl who loved Tom Gordon (1999) · Dreamcatcher (2001) · Black house (2001) · Almost like Buick (2002) · the man from Colorado (2005) · the Cell (2006) · the Story of Lizzie (2006) · Duma Key (2008) Under the dome (2009) · Billy "the Blockade" (2010) · 11/22/63 (2011) · Land of joy (2013) · Doctor Sleep (2013) · Mr. Mercedes (2014) Revival (2014) Who found, takes a (2015)
· End of watch (2016)
Author's collections
Night Shift (1978) · Four Seasons (1982) · Skeleton Crew (1985) · Four After Midnight (1990) · Nightmares and Fantastic Visions (1993) · Hearts in Atlantis (1999) · Everything is Ultimate (2002) · After Sunset (2008) · Darkness — and Nothing Else (2010) Shop of Bad Dreams (2015)
Under a pseudonym
Richard Bachman
Rage (1977) · Long Walk (1979) · Road Works (1981) · Running Man (1982) · Losing Weight (1984) · Regulators (1996) · Blaze (2007)
Other works
Dance of Death (1981 · * Kaleidoscope of Horrors (1982) · Plant (1983) · Nightmares in the Sky (1988) · Six Stories (1997) · Storm of the Century (1999) · How to Write Books (2000) · Cheerleader (2004) · The Ghost Brothers from Darkland County (2013)
See also: Stories and Novellas by Stephen King, Poems by Stephen King
Film adaptations of the works of Stephen King Movies
Carrie (1976) · The shining (1980) · Kaleidoscope of horrors (1982) · cujo (1983) · the Dead zone (1983) · Christine (1983) · children of the corn (1984) · Firestarter (1984) · Cat's eye (1985) · Silver bullet (1985) · Maximum Overdrive (1986) · Stand by me (1986) · the Running man (1987) · Kaleidoscope of horrors 2 (1987) · Pet Cemetery (1989) · Tales from the Dark Side (1990) · Night Shift (1990) · Misery (1990) · Sleepwalkers (1992) · The Dark Half (1993) · Necessary Things (1993) · Escape from Shawshank (1994) · Crush (1995) · Dolores Claiborne (1995) · Losing Weight (1996) · Night Flight (1997) · The Capable Student (1998) · The Green Mile (1999) · Hearts in Atlantis (2001) · Dreamcatcher (2003) · Secret Window (2004) · Riding a Bullet (2004) · 1408 (2007) · Mist (2007) · Dolan's Cadillac (2009) · Telekinesis (2013) · A Good Marriage (2014) * Mobile Phone (2016)
TV movies, TV series
and movies for video
The Salem Vampires (1979) · It (1990) · Sometimes They Come Back (1991) · The Golden Years (1991) · Tommyknockers: The Curse of Underground Ghosts (1993) · Confrontation (1994) · The Langoliers (1995) · Zone 51 (1997) · Freeway (1997) · The Shining (1997) · The Revelations of Becky Paulson (1997 · * Chinga (1998) · Storm of the Century (1999) · The Red Rose Mansion (2002) · The Dead Zone (2002) · Carrie (2002) · The Fate of Salem (2004) · Royal Hospital (2004) · Doom (2006) · Nightmares and Fantastic Visions (2006) · Children of Corn (2009) · Haven (2010-2015) · Bag of Bones (2011) · Under the Dome (2013-2015) · 11.22.63 (2016)
Movie sequels
The Lot of Salem 2: Return to Salem (1987) · Pet Cemetery 2 (1992) · Children of Corn 2: The Last Sacrifice (1992) · Children of Corn 3: City Harvest (1994) · Sometimes they come back... again (1996) · Children of Corn 4: Harvest (1996) · Children of Corn 5: Fields of Fear (1998) · Murderous Cold (1998) · Children of Corn 666: The Return of Isaac (1999) · Carrie 2: Rage (1999) · Children of Corn: Revelation (2001) · Crush 2: Computer Killer (2001) · Igniting the Look 2: All Over Again (2002) · The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) · Crush 3: Rebirth (2005)
In social networks
Twitter
Thematic sites Allmusic · Discogs · Internet Movie Database · MusicBrainz · Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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