Popular and contemporary author, Stephen King, was born in Portland, Maine, 1947, where his parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth King, split up when King was only an infant. Until the age of 11, King and his family moved all around the northern parts of the United States. The family settled back in Durham, Maine where King's mother took care of her parents until their death. The college that King went ot was the University of Indiana. While at Indiana he got a Bachelor's Degree in Art. King also had a field of interest in research and in speech. In 1974, when King's first novel Carrie was released, the Kings moved to Orrington, Maine so that King coult teach at the college. Eventually Kings mother died of cancer at the age of 59. It was during this time that King got the idea to write and try to publish carrie.
             Now King and his wife have three children named Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill, and Owen Phillip. He has produced many novels over the years including Carrie, the Shinning, and Salems Lot. He has also produced screed works of his novels including Carrie, The Dead Zone, the Shinning, Salem's Lot, Firestarter, Cujo, Pet Cemetary, The Green Mile, and Misery, which King himself wrote the script and was even said to have appeared in breifly.
             Most of Kings' books share a common theme: horror and supernatural powers. In fact most, if not all, of his portagonists have a relation to his immensely large interest in supernatural powers. For example, in the The shinning a drunk is possessed by evil spirits to attempt murder on his wife and young child.
             King has produced many works which are popular as far as horrific fiction, which is what all of his books, except for the autobiographies are based upon.
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