Stephen King Research Paper

STORY OF STEPHEN KING Do you know who the famous author of Carrie is or who the director of IT is? His name is Stephen King. He is a famous author and has written many great books and movies. He enjoys writing horror, thriller, and hair raising novels. He has 3 kids and an amazing wife a whole family of authors.
Stephen King's childhood was very astonishing. He was born on September 21 Portland, Maine in 1947 (King Tabitha). He was Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King second son. (King Tabitha) Stephen attended a grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, the graduating class of 1966 (King, Tabitha). When he was eleven years old he saw his best friend die by getting hit by a train.(“home”)
Stephen’s dad left when he was just …show more content…
Not long after he moved to Boulder, Colorado.(“home”) Stephen and Tabitha had two sons who also enjoyed writing.(“home”) They also had one daughter who is also a famous writer. They named their kids Naomi King, Joe Hill, and Owen King.(“home”)
June of 1999 Stephen encounter a major roadblock in his career. When he got hit by a car and suffered from severe injuries.(“home”) He had to have 5 major surgeries within 10 days. He had broken his hip and fractured many parts of his body.(“home”) He had to have therapy and many other treatments to help Stephen get through the pain.(“home”)
Stephen has always been interested in horror, thriller and hair raising movies and books.(“home”) Stephen and Tabitha have always tried to help high school kids get a scholarship. They made sure to always push their students to do their best in all that they do.(Tabitha, King) Stephen loved teaching at the high school he loved working with the different types of kids and to see how they learned in certain ways. It fascinated him to see all the different ways his students learned to better at different …show more content…
The first professional short story was “The Glass Floor” he published in 1967(Tabitha, King). He received a National Book Foundation Medal in 2003 for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (Tabitha, King).
When his mother died from bad health issues he wrote “The Shining”(“home”). He is also the writer of many famous movies and books. Like It, Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Cujo, and Pet Semetary. Stephen’s advice on if you want to be a writer you must do two things over all and to read a lot and write a lot.(King, Stephen)
Stephen King's books Salem's Lot, Night Shift, Do the dead sing?, and many others received an award. After Stephen's first short story he continued to sell stories to men magazines which eventually became the novel The Night Shift.(Tabitha, King)
On mother’s day of 1973 Stephen King learned a lot from his new editor Doubleday, Bill Thompson about paperback sales.(Tabitha, King) Stephen wrote his next published novel whose title changed three times first title was Second Coming and then Jerusalem's lot to its final title Salem’s Lot.(Tabitha, King) In the summer of 1973 during the writing of Salem’s Lot his mother died from cancer at the age of 59.(Tabitha,

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