Stephan King Essay, Research Paper

Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. In 1949, when Stephen was 2 years old, his father left one night and never came back. There are a couple of turning points in his young life that he believes pointed him in the direction that he now is at. In 1954 he began to write stories. Around 1959, he found a box of horror and sci-fi books in his aunt’s house. Those books brought the horror genre to him. He began writing horror stories shortly thereafter. In 1965, his first story I Was A Teenage Grave Robber was published in the Comics Review magazine. In 1971, King married Tabatha Spruce, and they now have three children, Joe, Owen and Naomi. His first novel, Carrie, was published in 1973. Since then, King has had numerous short stories and novels published and movies created from his work. Stephen King is called the “Master of Horror”. His books have been translated into many different languages, published in over 35 different countries. There are millions of copies of his novels in publication. He continues to live in Bangor, Maine.