1.

Stephen Edwin King was born in nineteen forty-seven and em Portland (Maine) is
an American writer known for his horror novels.

2. It was the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, who separated
when Stephen was just a child. He and his older brother, David, were raised by
their mother and spent part of his childhood in Fort Wayne.

3. He wrote his first story at seven years old and at eighteen years old he sold
his first text to a magazine.

4. He studied English language and literature at the University of Maine, where he

actively participated in student protests against the Vietnam War. She graduated
in nineteen seventy.

5. Worked for a time in a laundry, as already published stories in more magazines,

and in nineteen seventy-one began teaching English at a secondary school. By then
he had begun writing his first literary success.

6. In nineteen eighty-five he became an alcoholic,and drug addict. His wife

helped him out of this situation.

7. On June nineteen, nineteen ninety-nine while walking was struck by a car.

His wounds were very serious. After five operations he was able to continue their
work.

8. In nineteen seventy-three her first son was born, Joseph Hill.

9. He bought a Victorian mansion in Bangor, where he still resides.

10. One of the great passions of King, apart from writing and baseball is the
heavy metal.