Biografia De Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine He was a surprise addition to the family, as his mother had been told that she would never have children. His parents, Donald and Nellie King, were experiencing difficulties in their marriage, and when Stephen King was only 2, his father, a door-to-door salesman for Electrolux, left the house to buy a pack of cigarettes...butnever returned. Stephen King hasn't seen his father since.
Stephen and his adopted older brother, David King, lived with their mother back and forth between Massachusetts and Maine, and his passion for writing surfaced in 1959 when he wrote articles in his brothers local "newspaper" titled "Dave's Rag". Copied on a mimeograph machine, and with a circulation of only 20 or so, Stephen wrote articlesand even his views on upcoming television shows. Inspired by the relative success, Stephen copied some of his short stories and sold them to local people for a whole THIRTY CENTS!. Stephen actually sold some of his work at school until teachers put a stop to it.
There were many short stories written by King during these formative years, and many were actually published by the company called"Triad and Gaslight Books". The publishers were actually Stephen and David King, along with Chris Chesley. The last of these self published works was the 2 part, 3000 word "The Star Invaders".
Much of King's early works were science fiction based, but because he lacked the scientific grounding, they tended to be a bit thin on detail, but still excellent for someone of his age. Stephens interest inhorror writing began in 1959 when he found a box of old science-fiction and horror magazines at his Aunt's house. Inspired by such writers as Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Jack Finney, he began thinking more about horror writing, and published "I Was A Teenage Grave Robber" in comics review later that year. Despite this early publication, Stephen King's first professional sale occurredin 1967 when Startling Mystery Stories accepted his story "The Glass Floor".
King said in an interview in 1988: "I have a sense of injustice that came, I think ... My mother was a single parent. Her husband deserted her when I was 2, and she went through a lot of menial jobs. We were the little people. We were dragged from pillar to post, and there was none of this equal opportunity stuff goingon at that time. We were latchkey kids before there were latchkey kids, and she was a female wage earner when, basically, women did scut work and cleaned up other people's messes. And she never complained about it a lot. But I wasn't dumb and I wasn't blind. And I got a sense of who was being taken advantage of and who was lording it over the other people. A lot of that sense of injustice stayed.It stuck with me, and it's still in the books today."
Stephen King graduated from high school in 1966 and continued on to the University of Maine at Orono. While studying at University, he met his wife-to- be, Tabitha Spruce. He received his bachelors of science in English in 1970, then married Tabitha Spruce in 1971.
Stephen King began his work at an industrial laundromat, then became a janitor,then finally became an English teacher at Hamden Public School in Maine in the Fall of 1971. He didn't earn enough money, and had trouble paying the bills. He wrote whenever he wasn't working, and published Carrie in 1974 with Doubleday, after receiving a $2,500 advance for a book that Tabitha rescued from the garbage can! Carrie was an instant success, and it's movie, released in 1976, was alsopopular.
The one thing that really helped the struggling Kings was the sale of Carrie, but on May 12, 1973 a simple phone call changed their life forever. Doubleday had sold the rights to reprint Carrie to New American Library for $400,000, and King was to get Half! To mark the event, Stephen bought Tabitha a hairdryer. The struggle for money had now ceased, and allowed Stephen to concentrate...