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Stephen King Biography

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(1947 - )

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1994 Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Cords and an Attitude (with Dave Barry, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan)
2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
2002 The WaveDancer Benefit (with Pat Conroy, John Grisham, Peter Straub

2004 Faithfull: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the 2004 Season (with Stewart O'Nan)
2004 Building Bridges: Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards
Novels
1974 Carrie
1975 Salem's Lot
1976 The Shining
1978 The Stand
1979 The Dead Zone
1980 Firestarter
1981 Cujo
1981 The Mist
1982 Pet Sematary
1983 Christine
1984 Cycle of the Werewolf
1986 It
1987 The Eyes of the Dragon
1987 Misery
1988 The Tommyknockers
1989 The Dark Half
1990 The Stand
1990 Four Past Midnight
1991 Needful Things
1992 Gerald's Game
1992 Dolores Claiborne
1994 Insomnia
1995 Rose Madder
1996 Desperation
1996 The Green Mile
1998 Bag of Bones
1999 Storm of the Century
1999 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
2001 Dreamcatcher
2002 From a Buick 8
2005 The Colorado Kid
2006 Cell
2006 Lisey's Story
Novels as Richard Bachman
1979 The Long Walk
1981 Roadwork
1982 The Running Man
1984 Thinner
1996 The Regulators
Series
THE DARK TOWER
1982 The Gunslinger
1985 The Drawing of the Three
1991 The Waste Lands
1997 Wizard and Glass
2003 Wolves of the Calla
2004 Song of Susannah
2004 The Dark Tower
TALISMAN (with Peter Straub)
1984 The Talisman
2001 Black House
THE GREEN MILE
1996 The Two Dead Girls
1996 The Mouse on the Mile

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Writer. Born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. He graduated from his state university and continued to live in Maine, at first supporting himself with odd jobs while establishing his writing career. The success of his first horror novel, Carrie (1974), enabled him to publish earlier work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman (1977–84), a ploy which disguised the true extent of his prolific output of novels, short stories, and screenplays, until the ruse became public knowledge and he abandoned it.

His own name became synonymous with best-selling novels blending horror, fantasy, and science fiction into a consistently scary mix. His books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and include Salem's Lot (1975), The Shining (1977), The Dead Zone (1979), Misery (1987), Gerald's Game (1992), and Cell (2006). He has also written collections of short stories, including Hearts in Atlantis (1999). Several were made into successful films, and he himself tried his hand at film directing.

King and his novelist wife live in Bangor, Maine. They have three children: Naomi Rachel, a reverend; Joseph Hillstrom, who writes under the pen name Joe Hill and is a lauded horror-fiction writer in his own right; and Owen Phillip, whose first collection of stories was published in 2005.