Stephen King

Family
His father, Donald Edwin King, a traveling vacuum salesman after returning
from World War II, King's mother was Nellie Ruth King. His parents were
married in Scarborough, Maine, on July 23, 1939.
As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and
killed by a train, When King was two, his father left the family. His mother
raised him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under great
financial strain. When King was 11, his family moved to Durham, Maine,
where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. After that, she
became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged.
He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in the stacks
of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both
worked as students. The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and
Owen Phillip, and four grandchildren.
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947.
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural
fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. his books
have sold more than 350 million copies as of 2006, and many have been
adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. He has
also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been
published in book collections. His debut, Carrie, was published in 1974,
and was followed by 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand and The Dead
Zone. Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas, was his first major
departure from the horror genre. The novellas provided the basis for the
films Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil. Among the
films adapted from King's novels are Carrie, Christine, The Shining, The
Dead Zone, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile and It. He has
published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written
works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe
Hill and Owen King.
He is called the "King of Horror".