Stephen Edwin King

Amaia S. Morales Hernández

Eighth grade
Mrs. Mejías
October 3, 2023
Beginning:

• Was born in Portland, Maine in 1947

• The second son of Donald and Nellie
Ruth Pillsbury King
• After his parents separated when
Stephen was a young child, he and his
older brother, David, were raised by his
mother.
• Part of his childhood was spent in Fort
Wayne, Indiana, where his father's
family was located at the time, and in
Stratford, Connecticut.
Life:
•He graduated from the University of
Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. in
English and qualified to teach on the
high school level.

•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.
Career
• Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The
Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967.
• In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school
English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school
in Hampden, Maine.
• Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to
produce short stories and to work on novels.
• In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel
Carrie for publication.
• On Mother's Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new
editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback
sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and
write full-time.
• Stephen is the 2003 recipient of The National Book
Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American
Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
Famous books:
• Fairy tale
• Doctor Sleep
• Apocalypse
• Dolores Claiborne
• Christine
• Carrie
• The Mystery of Salem's Lot
• The glow
• The dark tower
• animal cemetery
• It
• Misery
• The green Mile
Some movies based on his books:

• Doctor Sleep
• It Chapter Two
• Firestarter
• Mr. Harrigan's phone
• The Dark Tower
More pictures of
Stephen King:
References:
• https://stephenking.com/the-author/

• https://www.alohacriticon.com/literatura/adaptaciones-cinematograficas/stephen-king-cine/
End