An American author, Stephen Edwin King was born on 21st September, 1947 at a place called Portland, which is the largest city of the state, Maine in the United States of America. He has two pen names such as John Swithen and Richard Bachman.
Stephen has been well recognized in the roles of an actor, columnist, film director, novelist, screenwriter, short story writer and television producer. His genres of prime concern are drama, fantasy, horror and science fiction. His other interests were baseball, philanthropy, politics, radio stations and society. His children are Joe King, Naomi Rachel King and Owen King.
The publishers of King are ‘Cemetery Dance Publications’, ‘Charles Scribner’s Sons’, ‘Doubleday’, ‘Grant’, ‘Philtrum Press’ and ‘Viking Press’. The projects underwent by Stephen are ‘Dollar Baby’ and ‘Rock-Bottom Remainders’. The King’s fictional topography, which are pertaining to the state of ‘Maine’ are ‘Castle Rock’, ‘Derry’ and ‘Jerusalem’s Lot’.
Stephen King has won six ‘Bram Stoker’ awards, six ‘Horror Guild’ awards, five ‘Locus Award’s, three ‘World Fantasy Award’s (including a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2004), the year, 1996’s award, which was named as ‘O. Henry Award’, a ‘Hugo Award’ in the year, 1982 for the non-fiction book, which had been named as ‘Danse Macabre’. He was given a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2003 by the association called as ‘Horror Writers’ Association’ and a medal for his distinguished contribution to the ‘American Letters’ from the foundation, named as ‘National Book Foundation’ in the year, 2003. In the year, 2007, King has also received an award for the lifetime achievement from the ‘Canadian Literary Guild’, which has made ‘Stephen’, the only non-Canadian to be conferred this award.
Some of the earlier novels of Stephen are ‘Carrie’ during the year, 1974; ‘Salem’s Lot’ during the year, 1975; ‘The Shining’ of 1977; ‘The Stand’ (re-released in 1990 with extra material) of 1978; ‘The Dead Zone’ during 1979; ‘Firestarter’ of 1980; ‘Cujo’ of 1981; ‘The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger’ (re-released in 2003 with revised material) of 1982; ‘Christine’, ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’ & ‘Pet Sematary’ of 1983; ‘The Talisman’ (written with ‘Peter Straub’) of 1984; ‘It’ of 1986; ‘The Eyes of the Dragon’, ‘Misery’, ‘The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three’ of 1987; ‘The Tommyknockers’ of 1988; ‘The Dark Half’ during 1989; ‘Needful Things’ of 1990.
The short story collections and novella collections by Stephen King are ‘Night Shift’ of 1978, ‘Different Seasons’ of 1982, ‘Skeleton Crew’ of 1985, ‘Four Past Midnight’ of 1990, ‘Nightmares & Dreamscapes’ of 1993, ‘Hearts in Atlantis’ of 1999, ‘Everything’s Eventual’ of 2002 and ‘Just After Sunset’ of 2008.
During the year of 1977, ‘Rage’; during the year of 1979, ‘The Long Walk’; in the year of 1981, ‘Roadwork’; during the year of 1982, ‘The Running Man’; in the year, 1984, ‘Thinner’; during the year, 1996, ‘The Regulators’; and in the year, 2007, ‘Blaze’ are the novels written by Stephen King under the pen name, “Richard Bachman”.
Stephen also has written a short fiction, a non-fiction and a complete bibliography.
