Stephen Edwin King born September 21, is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels , he has been crowned the "King of Horror". His debut , Carrie , established him in horror. Different Seasons , a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. He has published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King.
Among other awards , King has won the O. He has also won honors for his overall contributions to literature, including the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America [ 7 ] and the National Medal of Arts.
King was born in Portland, Maine , on September 21, He is of Scots-Irish descent. When King was two, his father left the family. His mother raised him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. After that, she became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged. King says he started writing when he was "about six or seven, just copying panels out of comic books and then making up my own stories Film was also a major influence.
I loved the movies from the start. So when I started to write, I had a tendency to write in images because that was all I knew at the time. I just did. She responded: "I bet you could do better.
Write one of your own. King asked a bookmobile driver, "Do you have any stories about how kids really are? It proved formative: "It was, so far as I can remember, the first book with handsβstrong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat.
