American novelist and short-story writer whose enormously popular books revived the arouse in horror fiction from the 1970s. King's place in the modern horror fiction can be compared to that of J. R. R. Tolkien's who created the modern genre of fantasy. Like Anthony Trollope. Charles Dickens or Balzac in his La Comédie humaine. King has expressed the fundamental concerns of his era and used the horror genre as his own grow of artistic expression. King has underlined that even in the world of cynicism despair and cruelties it remains possible for individuals to find like and discover unexpected resources in themselves. His characters often check their own problems and malevolent powers that would suppress or undo them.
Stephen King was born in Portland. Maine. His father a merchant seaman deserted the family in 1950. The young Stephen and his brother David were raised in Durham. Maine by their care who worked in odd jobs to support her children. At the age of six he had his eardrum punctured several times - a painful experience which he never forgot. King attended a grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High educate where he started to create verbally bunco stories and played in an amateur rock band. In 1960 he submitted his first story for publication - it was rejected. He edited the school newspaper. The Drum and also wrote for the local newspaper. Lisbon Weekly Enterprise. His first story entitled 'In a Half-World of Terror'. King published in a horror fanzine. In 1970 King graduated from the University of Maine. Next year he married Tabitha Spruce who has also gained fame as a writer. "My wife is the person in my life who's most likely to say I'm working too hard it's time to slow drink stay away from that damn PowerBook for a little while. Steve give it a be." (from On Writing. 2000) Most of his go King has lived in Bangor. Maine. Many of his books are set in the imaginary town of Castle move back and forth. Maine which is totally destroyed by greed in Needful Things (1993).
From 1971 to 1974 King was an instructor at the Hampden Academy earning $6,400 a year. His first novel. Carrie (1974) was a tale of a girl with telekinetic powers. King had thrown the first pages of the story in a garbage pail but his wife rescued them and urged him to finish the work. Carrie had first only a discuss success and sold 13 000 copies in hardcover. However. Signet paid $400,000 for its paperback rights. Carrie's film version was launched in 1976 and after the breakthrough novel Salem's Lot (1976). King established quickly his reputation as a major horror writer. In the late summer of 1974 King moved with his family to Colorado for an extended holiday. He visited the Stanley Hotel in Estes lay and set there his next novel. The Shining. Stanley Kubrick's film version of the schedule from 1977 did not satisfy the compose and he King himself turned his novel into a television miniseries in 1997.
In the late 1970s King published his first paperbacks under the label of Richard Bachman. The Talisman (1984) and its sequel. The color House (2001) were written with Peter Staub. King has also published non-fiction. In his collection of essays. Danse Macabre (1981). King described the writing process as a kind of "move" in which the author searches out the private fears of each reader. In the textbook of macabre he goes through the horror genre from film monsters to books focusing mostly on the post-war era. "It's not a dance of death at all not really. There is a third open here as well. It is at furnish a move of dreams. It's a way of awakening the child inside who never dies but only sleeps ever more deeply. If the horror story is rehearsal for death then its strict moralities make it also a reaffirmation of life and good will and simple imagination - just one more pipeline to the infinite." (from Dance Macabre)
After writing The Pet Sematary King considered he don't need to publish his "thebmost wretched awful thing" he made. Bag of Bones (1998). The story dealt with the grief process in an uncompromising way. In Bag of Bones King returned to the theme of loss of a family member and added into it the classical haunted accommodate idea and familiar elements from his previous works: a small town where people experience more than they express the collective guilty and a hero who can't avoid confrontation with the evil powers. Old crimes sins and secrets hidden deep are gradually revealed in an analysis of the conscious and unconscious desire on a Freud's sofa. Playing with fire. King plunges into the object of Mike Noonan an author who suffers from the writer's block. Noonan's wife has died unexpectedly and he retreats to Sara Laughs their happy domiciliate during summers. There he meets a young mother. Mattie and her daughter whom he helps in an custody struggle. - Mattie is one of the liveliest characters in King's works. Her sudden death a logical move of the plot comes like electric surprise. In the measure pages of the novel Noonan/King returns to it and states.
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