STEPHEN KING:

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947 son of Donald and
Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. And had an older Brother David. Stephen attended
the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating
in 1966. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with
a B.A. in English.

He met Tabitha his future wife at the University of Maine at Orono, where they
both worked as students. He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale "The Glass Floor" to
Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. He continued to sell stories to men's magazines,For added income. Later many of these stories went into the
Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at
Hampden Academy, 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.

At the end of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved to southern Maine. Stephen
wrote his next-published novel, originally titled "Second Coming" and then
"Jerusalem's Lot", before it became "Salem's Lot", in a small room in
the garage.

Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine
for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during
which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the
summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine.
At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton.




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Other Tib-Bits
Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry,
Has three children, and three grandchildren &
He has worn glasses since he was a child.

He has put some of his college dramatic society experience to use doing cameos
in several of the film adaptations of his works as well as a bit part in a George Romero picture, Knightriders. Joe Hill King also appeared in Creepshow, which
was released in 1982. Stephen made his directorial debut, as well as writing
the screenplay, for the movie Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of his short story "Trucks") in 1985.