Stephen King: The King of Terror
Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling
writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction,
the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these
themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic
everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels, has broadened
his horizons to different types of writings such as movie scripts, nonfiction,
autobiographies, children's books, and short stories. While Stephen King might
be best known for his novels The Stand and It, some of his best work that has
been published are his short stories such as "The Body" and "Quitters Inc".
King's works are so powerful because he uses his experience and observations
from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories.
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947,
at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted
brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's father Donald, a
Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of
cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact
on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King
recalls how his family life was altered: "After my father took off, my mother,
struggled, and then landed on her feet." My brother and I didn't see a great
deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low
paying jobs." Stephen's first outlooks on life were influenced by his older
brother and what he figured out on his own. While young Stephen and his family
moved around the North Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven
years old, they moved to Stratford, Connecticut. Here is where King got his
first exposure to horror. One evening he listened to the radio adaptation of
Ray Bradbury's story "Mars Is... [continues]
Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling
writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction,
the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these
themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic
everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels, has broadened
his horizons to different types of writings such as movie scripts, nonfiction,
autobiographies, children's books, and short stories. While Stephen King might
be best known for his novels The Stand and It, some of his best work that has
been published are his short stories such as "The Body" and "Quitters Inc".
King's works are so powerful because he uses his experience and observations
from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories.
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947,
at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted
brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's father Donald, a
Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of
cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact
on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King
recalls how his family life was altered: "After my father took off, my mother,
struggled, and then landed on her feet." My brother and I didn't see a great
deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low
paying jobs." Stephen's first outlooks on life were influenced by his older
brother and what he figured out on his own. While young Stephen and his family
moved around the North Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven
years old, they moved to Stratford, Connecticut. Here is where King got his
first exposure to horror. One evening he listened to the radio adaptation of
Ray Bradbury's story "Mars Is... [continues]
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