Question: Stand By Me, famously starring River Phoenix, was a film adapted from a short story called The Body, by which famous author?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] The Body is a novella by American writer Stephen King, originally published in his 1982 collection "Different Seasons" and adapted into the 1986 film "Stand by Me". Some changes were made to the plot of the film, including changing the setting year from 1960 to 1959 and the location of Castle Rock from Maine to Oregon. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell. The film, whose plot is based on Stephen King's novella "The Body" (1982) and title is derived from Ben E. King's eponymous song, which plays over the ending credits, tells the story of four boys in a small town in Oregon who go on a hike to find the dead body of a missing child. [END] 
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Stephen King
Stephen King