My favorite author is Steven King, the horror writer from Maine.
I've heard of him but I don't know much about him. What has he written?
Many books, like "Shawshank Redemption", It, Christine, Carrie.
Ohh wow I had no idea he wrote some of those classics!
Yeah, he has published 54 novels and 200 short stories. He is considered one of the best horror writers.
No wonder, he has written such great novels. That's so many too!
for the Arts for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror".
Early life.
King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman. Donald was born under the surname Pollock, but as an adult, used the surname King. King's mother was Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury).
When Stephen King was two years old, his father left the family. King's mother raised Stephen
the country for six years, playing approximately 250 shows a year. Malerman wrote many of the rough drafts for these novels in the passenger seat between cities on tour. He says this about those days: "I never saw the books with dollar signs in my eyes. It was no hobby, that’s for sure, it was the real thing and always has been, but I was happy, then, simply writing, and while I blindly assumed they'd be published one day, I had no idea how something