Bio of Stephen King
Stephen Edwin KingThesis statement: Stephen king was an ambitious writer, who followed in the footsteps of his father. Stephen King's life begins on September 21,1947. To, father Donald King and mother Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen is the second son, their first son is David king. When Stephen was around two ,his father walked out on them leaving their mother with two boys to raise on her own. That didn't stop Stephen from inheriting his dad's ability to write. When they moved to Durham, Maine in 1959 Stephen and his older brother David made a discovery that would change their live and the world's forever. The King brothers found their father's box full of his paperback books. They were not just any books, their father's taste ran to s
Things begin to change for Stephen, he wrote The Shinning, Salem's Lot, and a collection of short stories were published, "seemingly overnight". He started writing for his Aunt Gert, who paid him a quarter for every completed story. Married to his college sweetheart, Tabitha Spruce, and their birth of their first child in 1971. Stephen king is a big fan of rock-n-roll, he even has his own rock band called, "The Rock Bottom Remainders". King continued to write even after graduating from the University of Maine in 1970. TBR asked "who is bigger, you or Elvis". Stephen king has wrote over 40 novels and two hundred short stories, he has won many awards for his great writings. In 1973 king wrote the book entitled Carrie and it was published a year later. His books has been published in over 35 countries and in 33 different languages, over 300 million copies of his novel are in publication. Stephen replied with this, "Elvis is the KING, Elvis will always be the KING, however I'm still alive". Stephen remains fresh with each new offerings. "I want to stay dangerous , and this mean taking risk" Stephen said. And even at the age of 57 Stephen King is still writing books that people from all over the world love. In 1967 he made he first professional sale to a long-forgotten, occasionally wonderful magazine titled Startling Mystery Stories which brought his story, The Glass Floor.
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