"Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 58 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books. He has written around 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded"
"under the pen name ""Brian Harris"" he novelized the miniseries ""World War III"" His best-selling ""Closing Ceremonies,"" with the streamer ""Nazi Evil Lives On . . . And a Hunt to the Death Begins,"" prompted ""Publishers Weekly"" to name King in 1979 ""the crown prince of suspense."" ""Shelkagari"" is a story about the search in the Himalayas for a lost diamond that purportedly belonged to Alexander the Great. King's writing topics range from Himalayan subculture to disaster from nuclear reactors. In addition to his writing, King had been a taxi driver and a construction worker. King suffered from cancer and"
"Criminal Cases Review Commission, and was released on parole in March 2005. Journalist Robert Chalmers wrote that King's creative output after he left prison ""resembled a primal scream of rage"". Two novels appeared: ""Beware the Monkey Man"" (2010), under the pen name Rex Kenny, and ""Death Flies, Missing Girls and Brigitte Bardot"" (2013), under his real name, Kenneth George King. He also published a diary, ""Three Months"" (2012), and two volumes of his autobiography, ""Jonathan King 65: My Life So Far"" (2009) and ""70 FFFY"" (2014). King maintained an interest in prison issues and writes a column for ""Inside Time"","
"in a new pair of shoes."" The novel was adapted into a 2016 Hulu television series, ""11.22.63"". According to King, the idea for the novel first came to him in 1971, before the release of his first novel, ""Carrie"" (1974). He was going to title it ""Split Track"". However, he felt a historical novel required more research than he was willing to do at the time and greater literary talent than he possessed. Like his novel ""Under the Dome"" (2009), he abandoned the project, returning to the story later in life. King first talked publicly about the idea in ""Marvel"
"day, often classics she thought she would have read if she studied writing, including ""a lot of surrealist fiction."" She began writing novels while in Dublin. She returned to Pennsylvania in 2004. King wrote seven novels, as well as poetry and short stories, before she published her first novel, and collected more than 400 rejection letters. Her first published work was actually poetry to some university journals in the United States. She was unaware of the young adult market and wrote about adult characters, but the stories often started earlier in the characters' lives and she states, ""What I was"
"she began writing as a career. In the mid-1950s, she was a history teacher in Suitland, Maryland. Later in the decade, she was a file clerk at the National Association of Realtors. From 1964 to 1967, King was a feature writer for the ""Raleigh News and Observer"". While at the newspaper, King received the North Carolina Press Woman Award for reporting. The majority of King’s works under her own name have been non-fiction essays. She also wrote a historical romance novel, ""Barbarian Princess"", under the pseudonym Laura Buchanan. King also admitted to having written numerous pornographic stories, pulp paperback books"
"at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in Orono, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication. King has used other pseudonyms. The short story ""The Fifth Quarter"" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel ""Carrie""), that was published in ""Cavalier"" in April 1972. The story was reprinted in King's collection ""Nightmares & Dreamscapes"" in 1993 under his own name. In the introduction to the Bachman novel ""Blaze"", King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that ""Bachman"" was the person using the"
"then entitled ""The Float"", and ""all I did was cash the check and pay the fine."" In 1971, King married Tabitha Spruce, a fellow student at the University of Maine whom he had met at the University's Fogler Library after one of Professor Hatlen's workshops. That fall, King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. He continued to contribute short stories to magazines and worked on ideas for novels. During that time, King developed a drinking problem which would plague him for more than a decade. In 1973, King's first novel ""Carrie"" was accepted by publishing"
"Rachael King Rachael King (born 1970) is an author from New Zealand. King was born in 1970, in Hamilton, New Zealand. In 2001 she received a Master of Arts in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington. King is a bass guitarist and has played with several bands on the Flying Nun label. King's father is the historian and author Michael King and her brother is filmmaker Jonathan King. King has published three novels: Short stories by King have been published in several anthologies including in ""Home: New Short Short Stories by New Zealand Writers"" and ""Creative Juices"". In 2013,"
"and 1982 under the name Richard Bachman, which were reissued in one volume as ""The Bachman Books"" (1985). The others are ""Rage"" (1977), ""The Long Walk"" (1979), and ""Roadwork"" (1981). King created ""Richard Bachman"" to be his long-term alias, not just a temporary writing identity, but his real name was leaked to the media. He based ""The Dark Half"", a horror novel published in 1989, on the outing of Bachman. According to King's 2002 memoir """", he wrote ""The Running Man"" within a single week, compared to his normal 2,000-word or ten-page daily output—so that writing a novel normally takes"
"Records in 1972. He released and produced songs for 10cc and the Bay City Rollers. In the 1970s King became known for hits that he performed and/or produced under different names, including ""Johnny Reggae"", ""Loop di Love"", ""Hooked On A Feeling"" and ""Una Paloma Blanca""; between September 1971 and 1972 alone he produced 10 top 30 singles in the UK. Rod Liddle described him as someone who could ""storm the pop charts at will, under a hundred different disguises"". While living in New York in the 1980s, King continued to appear on radio and television in the UK, including on"
"and college magazines before his first book, ""Hamid of Aleppo"", was published by Macmillan & Co. of New York in 1958. He wrote ""The Town that Went South"" (1959), ""Stig of the Dump"" (1963) and ""The 22 Letters"" (1966) before deciding to become a full-time writer in 1973. King went on to write twenty further novels between 1972 and 2008, but he is probably best known for ""Stig of the Dump"", which has twice been adapted for television and continues to be taught in British schools. As a popular children's author King was invited to Children's Literature Summer Camps for"
"the comic book field, such as Chris Claremont, Stan Lee, and Alan Moore, as well as authors not primarily associated with that industry, such as Harlan Ellison. The following year, King published ""It"" (1986), which was the best-selling hard-cover novel in the United States that year, and wrote the introduction to ""Batman"" No. 400, an anniversary issue in which he expressed his preference for that character over Superman. In the late 1970s, King began what became a series of interconnected stories about a lone gunslinger, Roland, who pursues the ""Man in Black"" in an alternate-reality universe that is a cross"
"Swithen pseudonym. The ""children's book"" ""Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the World of The Dark Tower"" was published under the pseudonym Beryl Evans, who was portrayed by actress Allison Davies during a book signing at San Diego Comic-Con, and illustrated by Ned Dameron. It is adapted from a fictional book central to the plot of King's previous novel """" and published in 2016. In 2000, King published online a serialized horror novel, ""The Plant"". At first the public presumed that King had abandoned the project because sales were unsuccessful, but King later stated that he had simply run out of stories."
"A. S. King Amy Sarig King (born March 10, 1970) is an American writer of short fiction and young adult fiction. King was born and grew up outside of Reading, Pennsylvania. She recalls that due to a particular seventh grade teacher, she gave up on achieving good grades and instead played basketball and worked. She then moved to Ireland landing in Dublin first for two years, then to Tipperary, Ireland where she and her husband renovated a farm and she worked with adult literacy students. While in Dublin, before she could obtain a work permit, she read a book a"
"Man"" (1982) and ""Thinner"" (1984)—under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The idea behind this was to test whether he could replicate his success again and to allay his fears that his popularity was an accident. An alternate explanation was that publishing standards at the time allowed only a single book a year. He picked up the name from the hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, of which he is a fan. Richard Bachman was exposed as King's pseudonym by a persistent Washington, D.C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, who noticed similarities between the works and later located publisher's records at the Library of"
"Kate Martinelli, a fictional lesbian police officer in San Francisco, California. Using the pseudonym ""Leigh Richards"", she has published a futuristic novel, ""Califia's Daughters"" (2004). King's first book, ""A Grave Talent"" (1993), received the 1994 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a 1995 John Creasey Memorial Award. This was followed by the 1996 Nero Award, for ""A Monstrous Regiment of Women"", the 2002 Macavity Award for Best Novel, for ""Folly"", the 2007 Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, for ""The Art of Detection,"" and the 2015 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel, for ""Dreaming Spies"". She has also been"
"Rage (King novel) Rage (written as Getting It On; the title was changed before publication) is a psychological thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, the first he published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was first published in 1977 and then was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus ""The Bachman Books"". The novel describes a school shooting, and has been associated with actual high school shooting incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. In response King allowed the novel to fall out of print, and in 2013 he published a non-fiction, anti-firearms violence essay titled ""Guns"". Charlie Decker, a"
"house Doubleday. King had thrown an early draft of the novel into the trash after becoming discouraged with his progress writing about a teenage girl with psychic powers. His wife retrieved the manuscript and encouraged him to finish it. His advance for ""Carrie"" was $2,500; King's paperback rights later earned $400,000. King and his family moved to southern Maine because of his mother's failing health. At this time, he began writing a book titled ""Second Coming"", later titled ""Jerusalem's Lot"", before finally changing the title to ""Salem's Lot"" (published 1975). In a 1987 issue of ""The Highway Patrolman"" magazine, he"
"J. Robert King J. Robert King is an American fantasy novelist and former editor and game designer. He also writes non-fantasy fiction as John R. King. J. Robert King was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in northwestern Indiana. He knew he wanted to be a writer since fourth grade: ""I wanted to be a writer because of ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" (by C.S. Lewis). A teacher read one of them to us in third grade... I thought I'd check out the rest of the books. I loved them so much; they provided such an escape. I really wanted"
"Solomon King Solomon King (August 13, 1931 – January 21, 2005) was an American 1960s and 1970s popular music singer. He is best remembered for his 1968 British hit single, ""She Wears My Ring"", which charted in 40 countries. Born Allen V. Levy in Lexington, Kentucky, as a teenager he attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and was offered a scholarship to study Cantatorial Music by Jan Peerce. He first started singing professionally in 1952. Under his first pseudonym, Randy Leeds, his records such as ""I'm Gonna Live Til I Die"" did not sell. King was the first white singer"
"the late 1970s. ""It's Good News Week"" (1965) was the last big hit King had for four years. Then his cover of ""Let It All Hang Out"" (1969) made the top 30 in January 1970, and he went on to become the top singles producer of 1971 and 1972, beginning with ""It's the Same Old Song"". Released by B&C Records in December 1970 under a pseudonym, the Weathermen, it moved into the charts a month later. Using pseudonyms meant more airtime: radio producers might play several songs by the same artist during a programme without realizing they had devoted so"
"Lily King Lily King (born 1963) is an American novelist. King grew up in Massachusetts and received a B.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. She has taught English and creative writing at several universities and high schools. King’s first novel, ""The Pleasing Hour"" (1999), won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a ""New York Times"" Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, ""The English Teacher"", was a ""Publishers Weekly"" Top Ten Book of the Year, a ""Chicago Tribune"""
"CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV. King returned to WGN-TV in an on-camera position as a sports reporter and anchor in August 1991. After a 1994 reader poll, the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" reported that viewers appreciated the ""down-to-earth, no-hype styles"" of King and his fellow WGN sports anchor Dan Roan. King has served on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and the communications committee of the American Cancer Society. King also authored a novel entitled ""My Maggie"", which was published in October 2007 under King Books. The book centers on the story of King's late wife and childhood"
"1980 to 1985, helping to found the Bantam Spectra imprint, after which he was editor-in-chief of ""The Twilight Zone Magazine"" from March, 1986 until its last issue (February, 1989), and editorial director of its shorter-lived companion title ""Night Cry"" to its last issue in Fall 1987. He has since worked as a consultant technical writer and editor. King has written one novel with Beth Meacham, ""Nightshade"" (1976, Pyramid), and one children's novel with Viido Polikarpus, ""Down Town"" (1985, Arbor House), in addition to a number of short stories on his own. His work has appeared in the magazines """", ""Ariel,"
"a passion play, in which the character is redeemed by the sacrifice of another, and the third book I wrote as a comedy, in which the flaws of the character lead to his salvation."" With the success of his writing (and with two young sons by the late 1990s), King left his editing position to write full-time. He wrote a number of novels for the """" setting, including ""Time Streams"" and a trilogy of the ""Phyrexian Cycle"". and the second book in the tie-in novel series for ArenaNet's ""Guild Wars 2"", ""Edge of Destiny"". He also Arthurian novel ""Mad Merlin"""
"November 3, 2015, King released his tenth collection of short stories, ""The Bazaar of Bad Dreams"". The book was released to critical acclaim and commercial success. During a tour to promote ""End of Watch"", King revealed that he had collaborated on a novel, set in a women's prison in West Virginia, with his son, Owen King to be titled ""Sleeping Beauties"". When the novel was released in October 2017, it reached the top of the ""New York Times"" Best Seller List. King has written two novels with horror novelist Peter Straub: ""The Talisman"" (1984) and a sequel, ""Black House"" (2001)."
"stated, ""The story seems sort of down home to me. I have a special cold spot in my heart for it!"" Soon after ""Carrie""s release in 1974, King's mother died of uterine cancer. His Aunt Emrine had read the novel to her before she died. King has written of his severe drinking problem at this time, stating that he was drunk delivering the eulogy at his mother's funeral. After his mother's death, King and his family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where King wrote ""The Shining"" (published 1977). The family returned to western Maine in 1975, where King completed his fourth"
"which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album ""Writer"", King scored her breakthrough with the album ""Tapestry"", which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being ""Tapestry"", which held"
"""Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog"" (1992) for Forgotten Realms. He wrote his first novel, ""Heart of Midnight"", for the ""Ravenloft"" setting, soon after his hiring at TSR; other novels include ""Carnival of Fear"" for ""Ravenloft"", ""Vinas Solamnus"" for ""Dragonlance"", and the ""Planescape"" ""Blood Wars Trilogy"": ""Blood Hostages"", ""Abyssal Warriors"", and ""Planar Powers"". King treasures two of his earliest books, ""Rogues to Riches"" and ""Summerhill Hounds"", both intended for younger readers: ""They're two of my favorite books... but probably read the least. I think when we write for the older, mainstream audience we tend to make it gritty to convince people that"
"for Tor Books, followed by ""Lancelot du Lethe"", and ""Le Morte D'Avalon"" as the ""Mad Merlin"" trilogy, among other novels and various short fiction forms. J. Robert King J. Robert King is an American fantasy novelist and former editor and game designer. He also writes non-fantasy fiction as John R. King. J. Robert King was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in northwestern Indiana. He knew he wanted to be a writer since fourth grade: ""I wanted to be a writer because of ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" (by C.S. Lewis). A teacher read one of them to us in"
"The remaining three novels are still in print and are published as separate books. ""The Bachman Books"" is still in print in the United Kingdom although it no longer contains ""Rage"". In a footnote to the preface of the more recent Bachman book ""Blaze"" (dated 30 January 2007) King wrote of ""Rage"": ""Now out of print, and a good thing."" The Bachman Books The Bachman Books is a collection of short novels by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman between 1977 and 1982. It made ""The New York Times Best Seller List"" upon its release in 1985. The"
"with a mimeograph machine, and later began selling to his friends stories based on movies he had seen (though when discovered by his teachers, he was forced to return the profits). The first of his stories to be independently published was ""I Was a Teenage Grave Robber""; it was serialized over four issues (three published and one unpublished) of a fanzine, ""Comics Review"", in 1965. That story was published the following year in a revised form as ""In a Half-World of Terror"" in another fanzine, ""Stories of Suspense"", edited by Marv Wolfman. As a teen, King also won a Scholastic"