Stephen King.

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Stephen King is one of the world's best horror fiction writers sice Edgar Allan Poe.He is the author of more than thirty worldwide best-sellers.This is the story of his life and what he wrote. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland,Maine in 1947.He is the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King.After his parents seperated when Stephen was a toddler,he and his brother,David,were raised by his mother.Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne,Indiana,where his father's family was at the time,and in Stratford,Conneticut.Stephen and his brother paid frequent visits to members of his mother's family in Malden,Massachusett,and Pownal,Maine.When Stephen was eleven,his mother brought her children back to Durham,Maine,for good.Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then ...

... slips.In 1987 he had two titles It and The Eyes of the Dragon on the publishers weekly hardcover best-seller list at once,the first time in fifty years that that has happened.In 1988 It became Kings #1 best-seller.The first printing of It was 800,000 copies.The current total amount of It copies in the world is 1,025,000.King also directed Maximum Overdrive.He also wrote A Memoir of the Craft,on writing.From 1975-1980 he wrote Salem's Lot,The Shining,Night Shift,The Stand,The Dead Zone,and Firestarter.From 1981-1985 he wrote Cujo,Different Seasons,Pet Semetary,and Skeleton Crew.In 1987 King wrote The Eyes of the Dragon,It,Misery,and The Tommyknockers.In 1988 and 1989 he wrote The Dark Tower-The Gunslinger,and The Dark Tower-The Drawing of Three.Among his most recent works

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