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Стивен Кинг
The author of numerous horrors, supernatural and fantastic bestsellers was born in September, 1947, in Portland, USA. Stephen King is considered to be one of the most readable writers in a whole world. When he was 7, Stephen started to write own stories inspired with science fiction and monster movies.
He graduated from college with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and got a position of English teacher at a high school in Maine. Besides, he also wrote short stories for some magazines. However, the works were not popular and Stephen did not receive much money from the sale of them. The first novel which had a great success was Carrie (1974) – this book helped him come to the top of writers of horror stories.
Stephen King’s novels are popular because of its simple language, detailed description of characters, attention to modern issues and ordinary situations in which evil occurs. He takes ideas from his own experience and locations’ description were taken from places where he lived or just visited – all these things help to create the feeling that such ordinary people as you or your neighbours can be faced with monsters and frightening events.
A plenty of the author’s books and stories have been made into movies: Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Christine, The Green Mile, etc.
Автор многочисленных ужасов, сверхъестественных и фантастических бестселлеров родился в сентябре 1947 года в Портленде, США. Стивен Кинг считается одним из самых читаемых писателей во всем мире. Когда ему было 7 лет, Стивен начал писать собственные рассказы, вдохновленный научной фантастикой и фильмами ужасов.
Он окончил колледж со степенью бакалавра по специальности Английский язык и получил должность учитель английского языка в средней школе в штате Мэн. Кроме того, он также писал короткие рассказы для журналов. Однако, работы не были популярны и Стивен не получал много денег от их продажи. Первый роман, который имел большой успех, был Кэрри (1974) – эта книга позволила ему попасть в топ писателей в жанре Ужасы.
Романы Стивена Кинга пользуются популярностью из-за своего простого языка, детального описания персонажей, внимания к современным проблемам и обычных ситуаций, в которых появляется зло. Он берет идеи из своего собственного опыта и описания мест он брал из мест, где жил или просто бывал – все эти вещи помогают создать ощущение, что такие простые люди как вы или ваши соседи можете столкнуться с монстрами и страшными происшествиями.
Множество книг и рассказов автора были экранизированы: Кэрри, Жребий Салема, Сияние, Кристина, Зеленая миля и т. д.
Stephen King
Stephen King
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King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book Danse Macabre, which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema. He has also written stories outside the horror genre, including the novella collection Different Seasons, The Green Mile, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Stand, Hearts in Atlantis and his magnum opus The Dark Tower series. In the past, Stephen King has written under the pen names Richard Bachman and (once) John Swithen.
He frequently makes a cameo appearances in film adaptations of his novels.
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Biography
Early life
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman who was born with the surname Pollock, but changed it to King as an adult. King’s mother was Nellie Ruth King (née Pillsbury). His parents were married in Scarborough, Maine, on July 23, 1939. Shortly afterwards, they lived with Donald’s family in Chicago, Illinois before moving to Croton-on-Hudson, New York. King’s parents returned to Maine towards the end of World War II, living in a modest house in Scarborough. When King was two years old, his father left the family. His mother Nellie raised King and his adopted older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to Ruth’s home town of Durham, Maine but also spent brief periods in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut.
King attended Durham Elementary School and Lisbon Falls High School.
King has been writing since an early age. When in school, he wrote stories based on movies he had seen recently and sold them to his friends. This was not popular among his teachers, and he was forced to return his profits when this was discovered. The stories were copied using a mimeo machine that his brother David used to copy a newspaper, Dave’s Rag, which he self-published. Dave’s Rag was about local events, and King would often contribute. As a young boy, King was an avid reader of EC’s horror comics, which provided the genesis for his love of horror. He loved reading Tales from the Crypt.
His first published story was «In a Half-World of Terror» (retitled from «I Was a Teen-Age Grave-robber»), published in a horror fanzine issued by Mike Garrett of Birmingham, Alabama.
From 1966 to 1971, King studied English at the University of Maine at Orono. At the university, he wrote a column titled «King’s Garbage Truck» in the student newspaper, the Maine Campus. He also met Tabitha Spruce; they married in 1971. King took on odd jobs to pay for his studies, including one at an industrial laundry. He used the experience to write the short story The Mangler and the novella Roadwork (as Richard Bachman). The campus period in his life is readily evident in the second part of Hearts in Atlantis.
Hard at work back in the day.
After finishing his university studies with a Bachelor of Arts in English and obtaining a certificate to teach high school, King taught English at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. During this time, he and his family lived in a trailer. He wrote short stories (most were published in men’s magazines) to help make ends meet. As told in the introduction in Carrie, if one of his kids got a cold, Tabitha would joke, «Come on, Steve, think of a monster.» King also developed a drinking problem which stayed with him for over a decade.
Becoming famous
In On Writing, King admits that at this time he was consistently drunk and that he was an alcoholic for well over a decade. He even admits that he was intoxicated while delivering the eulogy at his mother’s funeral. «I think I did a pretty good job, considering how drunk I was at the time.» (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft) He states that he had based the alcoholic father in The Shining on himself, though he did not admit it (even to himself) for several years.
A light hearted moment circa 1983.
Shortly after the publication of The Tommyknockers, King’s family and friends finally intervened, dumping his trash on the rug in front of him to show him the evidence of his own addictions: beer cans, cigarette butts, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan (cough medicine), and marijuana. As King related in his memoir, he sought help and quit all forms of drugs and alcohol in the late 1980s, and has remained sober since.
King spends winter seasons in an oceanfront mansion located off the Gulf of Mexico in Sarasota, Florida. Their three children, Naomi King, Joseph King (who appeared in the film Creepshow), and Owen King, are grown and living on their own.
Artist Michael Whelan’s drawing of Rando Thoughtful and his friends disguised as Stephen King.
Both Owen and Joseph are writers; Owen’s first collection of stories, We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories was published in 2005. The first collection of stories by Joe Hill (Joseph’s pen name), 20th Century Ghosts, was published in 2005 by PS Publishing in a very limited edition, winning the Crawford Award for best new fantasy writer, together with the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award for Best Fiction Collection. Tom Pabst has been hired to adapt Hill’s upcoming novel, Heart-Shaped Box, for a 2007 Warner Bros release.
King’s daughter Naomi is a Reverend in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Utica, New York, where she lives with her partner.
Novels
The following is a complete list of all the novels written and published by Stephen King.
Upcoming novels
The following is a list of upcoming works being written by Stephen King.
The Talisman 3 • Lisey’s Story Tie-In Edition • Billy Summers
The Dark Tower Sequence
As Richard Bachman
Short Story Collections
The following is a complete list of all the short story collections written and published by Stephen King.
Non-Fiction
The following is a complete list of all the non-fiction books written and published by Stephen King.
The Author
Tabitha King, updated by Marsha DeFilippo
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older 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, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of the elderly couple. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen’s grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. KEEP READING STEPHEN’S BIO
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men’s magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale («The Glass Floor») to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men’s magazines. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication. On Mother’s Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time.
At the end of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved their growing family to southern Maine because of Stephen’s mother’s failing health. Renting a summer home on Sebago Lake in North Windham for the winter, Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem’s Lot, before it became ‘Salem’s Lot, in a small room in the garage. During this period, Stephen’s mother died of cancer, at the age of 59.
Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton.
In 1977, the Kings spent three months of a projected year-long stay in England, cut the sojourn short and returned home in mid-December, purchasing a new home in Center Lovell, Maine. After living there one summer, the Kings moved north to Orrington, near Bangor, so that Stephen could teach creative writing at the University of Maine at Orono. The Kings returned to Center Lovell in the spring of 1979. In 1980, the Kings purchased a second home in Bangor, retaining the Center Lovell house as a summer home.
Stephen and Tabitha now spend winters in Florida and the remainder of the year at their Bangor and Center Lovell homes.
The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, and four grandchildren.
Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6’4″ and weighs about 200 pounds. He is blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and has thick, black hair, with a frost of white most noticeable in his beard, which he sometimes wears between the end of the World Series and the opening of baseball spring training in Florida. Occasionally he wears a moustache in other seasons. He has worn glasses since he was a child.
He has put some of his college dramatic society experience to use doing cameos in several of the film adaptations of his works as well as a bit part in a George Romero picture, Knightriders. Joe Hill King also appeared in Creepshow, which was released in 1982. Stephen made his directorial debut, as well as writing the screenplay, for the movie Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of his short story «Trucks») in 1985.
Stephen and Tabitha provide scholarships for local high school students and contribute to many other local and national charities.
Stephen is the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
Press Biography
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 50 books and has become one of the world’s most successful writers. King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
Stephen lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities including many libraries and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.
Stephen King Biography
Nick Name: The King of horror, Richard Bachman, The King
Also Known As: Stephen Edwin King
Born in: Portland, Maine
Spouse/Ex-: Tabitha King (m. 1971)
father: Donald Edwin King
mother: Nellie Ruth
children: Joe King, Naomi King, Owen King
education: Durham Elementary School, Lisbon Falls High School
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Who is Stephen King?
One of the most popular writers of contemporary horror, suspense and science fiction, American author Stephen King has published over 50 novels and penned hundreds of short stories. Best known for writing the horror novel ‘It’ which revolves around a mysterious maleficent being that terrorizes children, King is undoubtedly one of the most loved horror writers whose writings never fail to incite fear, terror and fright in the minds of the readers. The author who mostly publishes under his real name also used to publish under the pseudonym ‘Richard Bachman’. Funnily enough, the sale of Richard Bachman’s books increased manifold after it was revealed that Bachman was none other than Stephen King himself. King is a highly prolific writer and the winner of multiple awards including the prestigious Bram Stoker Awards. Growing up King had a difficult childhood as he was raised by a single mother in financially difficult circumstances. While still a small boy he witnessed the horrific death of a friend who was struck and killed by a train in front of his eyes—this incident might have played a role in inspiring some of his darker writings. His first published novel was ‘Carrie’ which was so successful that it led to several film and Broadway adaptations.
Тема Биография Стивена Кинга на английском языке
Stephen Edwin king is an American writer, working in a variety of genres, including horror, Thriller, fantasy, mystery, drama; he was nicknamed “the king of horrors”. – Сти́вен Э́двин Кинг — американский писатель, работающий в разнообразных жанрах, включая ужасы, триллер, фантастику, фэнтези, мистику, драму; получил прозвище «Король ужасов».
Writer’s gift appeared very early-at the age of seven. It was at this age that the pen was tested. – Писательский дар проявился очень рано – в семь лет. Именно в этом возрасте состоялась проба пера.
In 1959, the active brothers kingi decided to publish their own newspaper. She wore a plain name – “Leaf Dave” – and successfully spread among relatives, friends and neighbors. By the way, not for free. – В 1959 году деятельные братья Кинги решили издавать собственную газету. Она носила незамысловатое название – «Листок Дэйва» – и успешно распространялась среди родственников, знакомых и соседей. Кстати, не бесплатно.
In the autumn of 1971 he began working as an English teacher at the school in Hampden, Maine. – Осенью 1971 года начал работать учителем английского языка в школе города Хэмпден штата Мэн.
May 12, 1973 the only phone call once and for all changes the life of Stephen king. Stephen king-Success bill Thompson tells him that the” double “sold the rights to publish” Carrie “publisher” Signet books ” for four hundred thousand dollars. – 12 мая 1973 года единственный телефонный звонок раз и навсегда меняет жизнь Стивена Кинга. Стивен Кинг – Успех Билл Томпсон сообщает ему, что “Даблдей” продал права на издание “Кэрри” издательству “Сигнет букс” за четыреста тысяч долларов.