Stephen King

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Stephen Edwin
King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King

combines
the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and


detective themes into his stories.1 In addition to these themes, King
sticks to using great

and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday
place.2 Stephen King who is mainly

known for his novels, has broadened
his horizons to different types of writings such as

movie scripts, nonfiction,
autobiographies, children’s books, and short stories. While

Stephen King
might be best known for his novels The Stand and It, some of his best work


that has been published are his short stories such as “The Body” and “Quitters
Inc”.3

King’s works are so powerful because he uses his experience and
observations from his

everyday life and places them into his unique stories.


Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21,
1947, at the

Maine General Hospital.4 Stephen, his mother Nellie, and
his adopted brother David were

left to fend for themselves when Stephen’s
father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left

one day, to go the store
to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned.5 His fathers

leaving
had a big indirect impact on King’s life. Stephen King recalls how his family
life

was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and
then landed on her

feet.” My brother and I didn’t see a great deal of
her over the next nine years. She

worked a succession of continuous low
paying jobs.”6 Stephen’s first outlooks on life

were influenced by his
older brother and what he figured out on his own. While young

Stephen
and his family moved around the North Eastern and Central United States. When


he was seven years old, they moved to Stratford, Connecticut.7 Here is
where King got

his first exposure to horror. One evening he lis...