About the author

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Stephen Edward King was born in 1947 in Portland. His parents divorced when he was a kid and he and his brother was brought up by his mother. When he attended the University of Maine at Orono he wrote a week column in the school newspaper and he was active in politics and he was an active member of Student Senate.

He got married in January in 1971 with a girl named Tabitha Spruce. Since Stephen couldn’t find a job as a teacher at once, the couple lived on the money he earned as a labourer at an industrial laundry, and she helped with loans and savings. The got an occasional boost of money when he’d wrote a short-story, but even if there wasn’t a lot of money they lived good.

He wrote his first story called “The Glass Floor” in 1967 and it was published in Straly Mystery Stories. During the first years of his marriage he wrote some short stories and novels to some magazines, but he had to decrease his writing to only write in the weekends when he became a teacher at a High School. In 1973 he got his novel “Carrie” published and on Mother’s Day that year he got to know that the paperback sale would provide him the means to stop teaching and go into the world of fiction full time if he wanted.

He has three children with his wife and three grandchildren. After the first book got published he really got enough money to do nothing more than write books. And he did. Through the last 30 years he has wrote some books and he is famous for his unique writing style. Stephen King thinks that the best way to write a story isn’t to plot the whole thing first, but to plant a seed and work it out from there. He seriously believes in this way of writing and there was once a very ill woman that asked how a long going series would end since she believed she wouldn’t live to the end, and he asked he did not know.

He is also known of the way he writes a lot of details, and he certainly does. He makes up really small stories in the books and links them to the main event with the characters and fictional towns. He writes 2000 words each day because if not, he says, you can’t call yourself a decent author.