The Master of Horror
Stephen King
The Shining (1977)
The Dead Zone (1979)
Danse Macabre (1981)
Cujo (1981)
Different Seasons (1982)
Christine (1983)
Pet Sematary (1983)
The Talisman, written with
Peter Straub (1984)
Skeleton Crew (1985)
Thinner, by Richard Bachman (1985)
It (1986)
The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
Misery (1987)
The Tommyknockers (1987)
The Dark Half (1989)
The Stand: The Complete and
Uncut Edition (1990)
Needful Things (1991)
Dolores Claiborne (1992)
Gerald's Game (1992)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993)
Insomnia (1994)
Rose Madder (1995)
Desperation (1996)
The Regulators, by Richard Bachman
(1996)
Bag of Bones, (1998)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, (1999)
Hearts in Atlantis, (1999)
Riding the Bullet, (2000)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,
(2000)
Dreamcatcher, (2001)
Birth name: Stephen Edwin King
Height: 6' 4"
Mini biography

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 at the Maine
General Hospital in Portland Maine. His parents were Donald Edwin
King and Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen being the only natural born
child in the family and his older brother David having been adopted at
birth two years earlier. The Kings were the typical family until one
night when Donald King said he was stepping out for cigarettes and
was never heard from again.

At this point Ruth took over raising the family with help from other
relatives of the family. They traveled throughout many states over
several years finally moving back to Durham, Maine in 1958. Stephen
King began his actual writing career in January of 1959 when David
King and Stephen decided to publish their own local town newspaper
named Dave's Rag. David bought a mimeograph and they created a
paper that sold for five cents an issue. Stephen King attended Lisbon
High School, in Lisbon, Maine in 1962. Collaborating with his best
friend Chris Chesley, in 1963 they published a collection of 18
short stories called People, Places, and Things-Volume I. King's
stories included "Hotel at the End of the Road", "I've Got to Get
Away!", "The Dimension Warp", "The Thing at the Bottom of the
Well", "The Stranger", "I'm Falling", "The Cursed Expedition", and
"The Other Side of the Fog." A year later King's amateur press Triad
and Gaslight Books, published a two part book titled "The Star
Invaders". Stephen King made is first actual published appearance in
1965 in the magazine Comics Review with his story "I Was a
Teenage Grave Robber." The story ran about 6,000 words in length.

In 1966, Stephen King graduated from high school and took a
scholarship to attend the University of Maine. Looking back on his
high school days, King recalled that "my high school career was
totally undistinguished. I was not at the top of my class, nor at the
bottom." Later that summer King began working on a novel called
"Getting It On", about some kids who take over a classroom and try
unsuccessfully to ward off the National Guard. During his first year at
college, King completed his first full length novel, "The Long Walk."
He submitted the novel to Bennett Cerf/Random House only to have
it rejected. King took the rejection bad and filed the book away.

Stephen King made his first small sale with his story "The Glass
Floor" for the amount of thirty-five dollars. In June 1970, Stephen
King graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor of
Science degree in English and a certificate to teach high school.
King's next idea came from the poem by Robert Browning, "Childe
Roland to the Dark Tower Came." He found bright colored green
paper in the library and began work on The Dark Tower saga. But due
to his lack of income he was unable to further pursue the novel at
great length and it too was filed away. King took a measly job of
pumping gas earning $1.25 an hour.

Stephen King then began to earn money for his writings by
submitting his short stories do men's magazines such as Cavalier. On
January 2, 1971, Tabitha Jane Spruce and Stephen King were
married. And in the fall of 1971, King took a teaching job at

Hampden Academy earning $6,400 a year.
The Kings then moved to Hermon, a town west of Bangor, Maine.
Stephen King than began work on a short story about a teenage girl
named Carietta White. After a completing a few pages, King decided
it was not a worthy story and crumpled the pages up and tossed them
into the trash.
Fortunately for Stephen, his wife Tabitha took the pages out and read
them. She encouraged her husband to continue the story. He did. In
January 1973, King submitted Carrie to Doubleday. In March,
Doubleday bought the book. On May 12, Doubleday sold the
paperback rights of Carrie to New American Library for $400,000.

Based on the book contract, Stephen King would get half of that.
King quit his teaching job to pursue writing full time. And the rest,
as they say, is history. Since then, King has had numerous short
stories and novels published and movies created from his work.

Stephen King is called the "Master of Horror".
His books have been translated into 33 different languages, published
in over 35 different countries. There are over 300 million copies of
his novels in publication. He continues to live in Bangor, Maine with
his wife where he writes out of his home. In June 1999 Stephen
King was severely injured in an accident that left him in critical
condition with injuries to his lung, broken ribs, a broken leg and a
severely fractured hip. After three weeks of operations he was
released from the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine.

Spouse: Tabitha King (2 January 1971 - present) 3 children

Trade mark: Usually sets stories in Maine.

Most of his lead male characters are writers.
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