Stephen King's Biography
- Stephen King was born in Portland in Maine in 1947. His parents split up when Stephen was two, when his father Donald King, a merchant marine, walked out.
- Stephen King studied English at the University of Maine, where he met his wife-to-be Tabitha Spruce in the Fogler Library. They married in January 1971.
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In an interview with Stephen King he explained his early career: "I started to sell short fiction to men's magazines while I was in college. I got married six or seven months after graduating, and for two years I sold maybe six stories a year, and I had the money I was making teaching, too, and it was a decent income."
- Stephen King then had a lean spell, but it was turned around when his wife retrieved the manuscript of Carrie from the bin.
- Stephen King went on to write more than forty novels, selling hundreds of millions of books worldwide, including well-known best-sellers such as The Shining, and Misery.
- Stephen King is 6ft 4in tall and weighs 200lbs.
- He also writes under the pseudonym, Richard Bachman.
- In 2003 Stephen King was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the US National Book Awards.
- On June 19, 1999 Stephen King was run into by a wayward camper van, maiming him for life. He wrote about the experience in his book, On Writing.
- Stephen King has various phobias including arachnophobia, claustrophobia, agoraphobia and triskaidekaphobia.
- Suggested further reading: Stephen King's official site; a review of Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak, and Stephen King's Desert island Discs.
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