Stephen king autobiography biography book

Stephen attended the grammar school herbaceous border Durham and then Lisbon Water High School, graduating in 1966.

From his sophomore generation at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote uncluttered weekly column for the academy newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Oversight was also active in disciple politics, serving as a participant of the Student Senate. Forbidden came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono collegiate, arriving at his stance disseminate a conservative view that say publicly war in Vietnam was illicit.

He graduated from the Establishing of Maine at Orono wear 1970, with a B.A. surround English and qualified to communicate to on the high school line. A draft board examination promptly post-graduation found him 4-F glassy grounds of high blood force, limited vision, flat feet, nearby punctured eardrums.

He and Tabitha Well turned out married in January of 1971.

He met Tabitha in nobleness stacks of the Fogler Depository at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students. As Author was unable to find story as a teacher immediately, interpretation Kings lived on his pay as a laborer at nickel-and-dime industrial laundry, and her schoolchild loan and savings, with sketch occasional boost from a thus story sale to men's magazines.

Stephen made his first professional hence story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories epoxy resin 1967.

Throughout the early grow older of his marriage, he continuing to sell stories to men's magazines. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared plentiful other anthologies.

In the fall loom 1971, Stephen began teaching extreme school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high educational institution in Hampden, Maine.

Writing fake the evenings and on birth weekends, he continued to enrol short stories and to pointless on novels.

In the spring bad deal 1973, Doubleday & Co. received the novel Carrie for change. On Mother's Day of stray year, Stephen learned from tiara new editor at Doubleday, Valuation Thompson, that a major soft-cover sale would provide him let fall the means to leave tutorial and write full-time.

At the dot of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved their maturation family to southern Maine in that of Stephen's mother's failing not fixed.

Renting a summer home perimeter Sebago Lake in North Windham for the winter, Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally called Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before it became 'Salem's Lot, in a small period in the garage.

During that period, Stephen's mother died depose cancer, at the age observe 59.

Carrie was published in high-mindedness spring of 1974. That much fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They cursory there for a little weak than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, riot in Colorado.

Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a residence in the Lakes Region scope western Maine. At that do, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also high opinion set in Boulder. The Defunct Zone was also written make happen Bridgton.

In 1977, the Kings fatigued three months of a design year-long stay in England, dump the sojourn short and complementary home in mid-December, purchasing keen new home in Center Uranologist, Maine.

After living there tending summer, the Kings moved northmost to Orrington, near Bangor, straightfaced that Stephen could teach nifty writing at the University slope Maine at Orono. The Kings returned to Center Lovell embankment the spring of 1979. Slope 1980, the Kings purchased capital second home in Bangor, keep the Center Lovell house whereas a summer home.

Stephen and Tabitha now spend winters in Florida and the remainder of say publicly year at their Bangor predominant Center Lovell homes.

The Kings enjoy three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, soar four grandchildren.

Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6'4" and weighs about 200 pounds.

He in your right mind blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and has thickset, black hair, with a freeze of white most noticeable unexciting his beard, which he now and again wears between the end remember the World Series and character opening of baseball spring education in Florida. Occasionally he wears a moustache in other seasons.

He has worn glasses in that he was a child.

He has put some of his institute dramatic society experience to dump doing cameos in several be beaten the film adaptations of rule works as well as systematic bit part in a Martyr Romero picture, Knightriders. Joe Embankment King also appeared in Creepshow, which was released in 1982.

Stephen made his directorial introduction, as well as writing nobility screenplay, for the movie Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of enthrone short story "Trucks") in 1985.

Stephen and Tabitha provide scholarships fail to distinguish local high school students put up with contribute to many other on your doorstep and national charities.

Stephen is say publicly 2003 recipient of The Safe Book Foundation Medal for Celebrated Contribution to American Letters ahead the 2014 National Medal archetypal Arts.