King THE MAINE CAMPUS. During his years

King THE MAINE CAMPUS. During his years

King was born on 1974 in Portland,Maine. His name was Stephen Edwin King.

After his parents serpertion as a toddler,Stephen and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen, David, andtheir mother lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which was where Stephens fathers side of thefamily lived. They then moved to Stratford, Connecticut, that was where Stephen Kingspent most of his childhood paying frequent visits to his mothers side of the family thatresided in Malden, Massachusetts and Pownal, Maine. Around his 11th anniversaryStephens mom moved to Durham, Maine, along with Stephen and his brother, to takecare of her parents, whom were to old to take care of themselves.

Stephens school days were spent in the Durham Grammar School. He thenattended Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. He went to college at theUniversity of Maine at Orono, at which, during his spophomore year, he worte a weeklycolumn for THE MAINE CAMPUS. During his years at college he was opposed to thewar in Vietnam, declaring it unconstitutional. After his graduation in 1970 Stephen hadaquired a Bachelor of Science in English and immediately was qualified to teach at thehigh school level.As a student Stephen worked at the Folger Library, which was on the University ofMaine at Oronos campus. While working he met a fellow employee named TabithaSpruce, who he married in Janurary 1971.

Stephen Kings first publication was a short story he wrote and sent to a mensmagazine. This is where his first profit from writing came from, throughout the few yearsafter his graduation he worte stories and sold them to mens magazines. All of these shortstories would be later gathered into a collection known as the “Night Shift collection.” Inthe fall of 71 King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy, a public high school inHampden, Maine. He still found time to write short stories and work on his novel on theweekends and evenings.

Kings first big break came on the spring of 1973 upon the acceptence ofDoubleday & Co. to publish Stephen Kings novel Carrie. After learning from his neweditor, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would make him financially secureenough to quit teaching, Stephen moved his now growing family to southern Mainebecause of his grandmothers ever growing sickness. During the writing of Salems LotStephens mother grew ill and died of cancer at the age of 59.Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. During the fall of the same year Kingmoved his family to Boulder, Colorado.

Stephen King wrote The Shining in the half of ayear they lived in Colorado. They then returned to Maine in in the summer of 75. It wasin his new house that King finished writing The Stand, which was set back in Boulder.Stephen King eventually moved back to the area around his college so he could teachcreative writing as a professor.Bibliographywww.horrorking.comwww.stephenking.com