Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland,Maine in 1947.He was second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King.When Stephen was baby, his mother and father divorced. Parts of his childhood spent in Fort Wayne Indiana. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham-Maine. He is a famous writer. Many of his books adapted to movies.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School. He graduated in 1966. He started university of Maine at Orono. He wrote a column for the school newspaper. When he was a student he was active. He served to members of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement to the Orono Campus. He graduated from the university in 1970. He qualified to teach on the high school level when he graduated.


He married with Tabitha Spruce in January of 1971. Stephen published first Professional short story (The Glass Floor) in 1967.
He continued to sell stories to men’s magazine. Many of these aggregated into the ‘Night Shift’.
Stephen began teaching at English class of high school at Hampden Academy. He contiuned to write short stories.
In 1973, Doubleday and Co. accepted the novel: “Carrie” for publication. The King Family moved South Maine because Stephen’s mother was sick. She died in 1973.
“Carrie” published in 1974. The King Family left from Maine. They went to Colorado. Stephen wrote “The Shining” in Colorado. They returned to Maine in 1975.
The Kings have three children. Their names are Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Philip. The Kings have four grandchildren.

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