Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of horror, supernatural fiction, tension, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold over 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books. He has written about 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections.
King has received the Bram Stoker Awards, the World Fantasy Awards, and the British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded it a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He also received awards for his contributions to the literature for his entire Oeuvre, such as the Fantasy World Award for the Achievement of Life (2004), and the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America (2007). In 2015, King was awarded the National Art Medal of the United States National Endowment of the Arts for his contribution to literature. He has been described as "The King of Horrors".
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Early life and education
King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant sailor. Donald was born with the Pollock family name, but as an adult, using the King's surname. King's mother is Nellie Ruth (nÃÆ' Â © e Pillsbury).
When Stephen King was two years old, his father left the family on the pretext of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes", leaving his mother to raise Stephen and his older brother, David, alone, sometimes under great financial pressure. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Stratford, Connecticut. When the King was 11 years old, his family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother took care of his parents until their death. He later became a nanny at a local housing facility for mental challenges. The King was raised Methodist and remained religious as an adult.
As a child, the King apparently witnessed one of his friends being beaten and killed by a train, even though he had no memory of the incident. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, without words and looked surprised. Only then did the family know about the friend's death. Some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of King's darker works, but King did not mention it in his memoirs On Writing (2000).
King tells in great detail his main inspiration for writing horror fiction in his non-fiction book Danse Macabre (1981), in a chapter titled "An Annoying Autobiographical Pause". King compares his uncle's dowing with water using branches of an apple branch with the sudden realization of what he wants to do to earn a living. The inspiration took place when exploring the attic with his older brother, when King found a paperback version of H. P. Lovecraft's collection of short stories he remembered as The Lurker in the Shadows, which belonged to his father. The king told Barnes & amp; Noble Studios during an interview in 2009, "I know that I found home when I read the book."
King studied at Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine. He showed his early horror interest as a loyal reader of the EC horror comics, including Tales from the Crypt (he later rewarded the comic in his script for Creepshow ). He started writing for fun while still at school, contributing articles to Dave's Rag, his brother's newspaper published with a stencil machine, and then began selling to his friends stories based on the film he had seen ( although when discovered by his teacher, he is forced to recover his profits). The first story published independently is "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber"; it serialized over four issues (three published and one unpublished) from fanzine, Comics Reviews , in 1965. The story was published the following year in a revised form as "In Half the World of Terror" in fanzine etc., Stories of Suspense , edited by Marv Wolfman. As a teenager, the King also won the Scholastics Art and Writing Award.
From 1966, King studied at the University of Maine, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. That year, her daughter Naomi Rachel was born. He writes columns, Steve King Trash Can , for student newspapers, Maine Campus and participates in writing workshops organized by Burton Hatlen. King held various jobs to pay for his studies, including janitors, gas station workers, and workers in an industrial laundry.
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Careers
Beginning
King sold his first professional short story, "The Glass Floor", to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. The Fogler Library at the University of Maine now holds many King's documents.
After leaving the university, King obtained a certificate to teach high school, but, unable to find a teaching post immediately, initially increased his wages by selling short stories to men's magazines like Cavalier . Many of these early stories have been republished in the Night Shift collection. The Raft short story is published in Adam , men's magazines. After being arrested for driving over a traffic cone, he was fined $ 250 and had no money to pay a small theft penalty. Fortunately, the payment arrived for The Raft's short story, titled The Float , and "all I did was thaw the check and pay the fine." In 1971, King married Tabitha Spruce, a student at the University of Maine whom he met at the Fogler University Library after one of Professor Hatlen's workshops. That fall, King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. He continues to donate short stories to magazines and work on ideas for novels. During that time, King developed a drinking problem that would disturb him for more than a decade.
In 1973, King Carrie's first novel was accepted by Doubleday's publisher. King had thrown the original draft into the bin after desperation with his progress writing about a teenage girl with inner strength. His wife took the manuscript back and encouraged him to finish it. His progress for Carrie was $ 2,500; King's paperback rights will generate $ 400,000.
The king and his family moved to southern Maine due to the ill-health of his mother. At this time, he began to write a book called Second Coming, which was then titled Lot of Jerusalem , before finally changing the title to Salem's Lot (published) 1975). In the 1987 edition of The Highway Patrolman magazine, he stated, "The story looks like a house to me, I have a special place in my heart for it!" Soon after Carrie ' was released in 1974, King's mother died of cervical cancer. Her aunt Emrine had read the novel before she died. The king has written about his drinking problem that is severe at the moment, stating that he was drunk delivering a speech at his mother's funeral.
After the death of his mother, the King and his family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where the King wrote The Shining (published in 1977). The family returned to western Maine in 1975, where the King completed his fourth novel, The Stand (published 1978). In 1977, the family, with the addition of Owen Phillip (the third and last child), traveled briefly to England, back to falling Maine, where the King began teaching creative writing at the University of Maine. He has kept his main residence in Maine ever since.
In 1985, King wrote his first work for comic book media, writing some comic book pages of X-Men's Heroes for Hope Starring X-Men comic. The book, whose profits are donated to help fight hunger in Africa, was written by a number of different authors in the field of comic books, such as Chris Claremont, Stan Lee, and Alan Moore, as well as writers who were not particularly related to it. industry, such as Harlan Ellison. The following year, King wrote an introduction to Batman . 400, a birthday edition in which he stated his preference for the character above Superman.
Dark Tower book
In the late 1970s, King embarked on a series of interconnected stories about a rifle rifle, Roland, who pursued "Man in Black" in a universe of alternatives that is a cross between Middle-earth JRR Tolkien and the Wild West of America. as depicted by Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone in their Western spaghetti. The first of these stories, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger , was originally published in five installments by The Magazine of Fantasy & amp; Scientific Fiction under Edward L. Ferman's editor, from 1977 to 1981. The Gunslinger continued as an epic series of eight books titled The Dark Tower , whose books The king wrote and published rarely for four decades.
Incognito
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, King published several short novels -
Richard Bachman is described as a pseudonym of the King by a Washington book shopkeeper, D.C. Steve Brown, who saw the resemblance between the works and the later publisher's notes at the Library of Congress which named King as the author of one of Bachman's novels. This led to a press release touting "death" Bachman - who allegedly came from a "cancer pseudonym". King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym that animates a writer, to "the late Richard Bachman", and in 1996, when Stephen King's novel Desperation was released , The Companion's novel The Regulator carries the byline "Bachman".
In 2006, during a press conference in London, King stated that he had found another Bachman novel, titled Blaze. It was published on June 12, 2007. In fact, the original manuscript has been held at King's alma mater, University of Maine in Orono, for many years and has been borne by many King's experts. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for his publication.
The King has used other aliases. The short story "The Fifth Quarter" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of the character in the novel Carrie ), published in Cavalier in April 1972 The story is then reprinted in the King's collection Nightmares & amp; Dreamscapes in 1993 in its own name. In the introduction to Bachman Blaze's novel, King claims, with a tongue-in-cheek, that "Bachman" is a person who uses the pseudonym Swithen.
"Children's Books" Charlie the Choo-Choo: From World of The Dark Tower published under the pseudonym Beryl Evans , photographed by actress Allison Davies during a book signing at San Diego Comic-Con, and illustrated by Ned Dameron. This is adapted from the fiction book that became the centerpiece of King's The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands and published in 2016.
Digital Age
In 2000, King published a serial horror novel, The Plant . At first the public thought the King had abandoned the project because the sale was unsuccessful, but King later stated that he had run out of stories. Unfinished epithesis novels still available from King's official website, now free. Also in 2000, he wrote a digital novel, Riding the Bullet , and said he saw the e-book be 50% of the market "probably in 2013 and possibly in 2012". But he also warned: "Here's the problem - people get bored with new toys quickly."
In August 2003, King began writing a column on pop culture that appeared in Entertainment Weekly , usually every third week. The columns, called The Pop of King (a play on the nickname "The King of Pop" commonly associated with Michael Jackson).
In 2006, King published an apocalyptic novel, Cell . This book has a sudden power where every mobile user turns into an unthinking killer. King noted in the introduction to the book that he did not use a cell phone.
In 2008, King published a novel, Duma Key , and the collection, Just After Sunset . The latter features 13 short stories, including novella, N. , which are then released as serialized animated series that can be viewed for free, or, for a small fee, can be downloaded higher in quality; later adopted into a limited comic book series.
In 2009, King published Ur , a novella exclusively written for the launch of the second generation Amazon Kindle and only available on Amazon.com, and Throttle , a novella co- written with his son Joe Hill and released later as an audiobook titled Road Rage , which included the short story of Richard Matheson's "Duel". Novel King Under the Dome was published on November 10 of that year; this is a reworking of an unfinished novel he tried to write twice in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and at 1,074 pages, it was the greatest novel he wrote since It (1986). Under the Dome debuted at No. 1 in The New York Times List Best List.
On February 16, 2010, King announced on his website that the next book will be a collection of four unpublished novellas entitled Full Dark, No Stars . In April of that year, King published Blocky Billy , an original novel published first by a small independent publisher of Pustaka Cew Publication and later released on mass market paperback by Simon & Schuster. The following month, DC Comics premiered American Vampire, a monthly comic book series written by King with short story writer Scott Snyder, and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, representing King's original original comic work. King wrote the background of the history of the first American vampire, Skinner Sweet, in the first five stories. Scott Snyder wrote the story of Pearl.
Novel King's next, 11/22/63 , was published on November 8, 2011, and was nominated for the 2012 Fantasy World's Best Novel. The Eighth Dark Tower volume, The Wind Through the Keyhole , published in 2012. The next book of the King is Joyland , a novel about "entertainment -parki killer", according to an article in The Sunday Times , published on April 8, 2012. This was followed by a sequel to The Shining (1977), titled Doctor Sleep , published in September 2013.
During his Chancellor Speaker at the University of Massachusetts Lowell on December 7, 2012, King indicated that he was writing a criminal novel about a retired policeman who was mocked by a murderer. With a work title Tuan. Mercedes and was inspired by the real event about a woman driving her car to a McDonald's restaurant, originally intended to be a short story of just a few pages. In an interview with Parade , published May 26, 2013, King confirmed that the novel "more or less" was published in June 2013. Then, on June 20, 2013, while chatting with fans as part from promoting the upcoming TV series Under the Dome , King mentioned he is writing the next novel, Revival , released November 11, 2014.
The king announced in June 2014 that sir. Mercedes is part of the trilogy; The second book, Seeker, , was released on June 2, 2015. On April 22, 2015, it was revealed that the King is currently working on the third book of the trilogy which was later revealed to be End of Watch . This book was released on June 7, 2016, and topped the New York Times bestseller list.
On November 3, 2015, King released his tenth collection of short stories, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams . This book was released for critical acclaim and commercial success.
During the tour to promote End of Watch, King revealed that he had collaborated on a novel, placed in a women's prison in West Virginia, with his son Owen King being named Sleeping Beauties . When the novel was released in October 2017, it reached the top of the Best Seller List.
Collaboration
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King has written two novels with the horror novelist Peter Straub: The Talisman (1984) and the sequel, Black House (2001). King has indicated that he and Straub are likely to write the third and closing book in this series, Jack Sawyer's story, but have no time for completion.
King produced an artist's book with designer Barbara Kruger, My Pretty Pony (1989), published in a limited edition 250 by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Alfred A. Knopf released it in the general merchandising edition and the story was later incorporated into the King's collection. Nightmares & amp; Dreamscapes was published in 1993.
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red (2001) is an excellent series for miniseries written by King Red Red (2002). Published under the author of anonymous, the book was written by Ridley Pearson. The novel was written in the form of a diary by Ellen Rimbauer, and annotated by the paranormal activity fiction professor, Joyce Reardon. The novel also presents a fictitious cover by the granddaughter of Ellen Rimbauer, Steven. Aimed at being a promotional item rather than a stand-alone job, its popularity spawned the prequel television miniseries of 2003 to Rose Red , titled The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer . This spin off is a rare opportunity from other writers who are given permission to write commercial works using the characters and story elements created by King. The new tie-in idea is repeated on the next Stephen King project, miniseries Kingdom Hospital . Richard Dooling, King's collaborator at Kingdom Hospital and author of several episodes in the miniseries, published a fictional journal, The Journal of Eleanor Druse, in 2004. Eleanor Druse is the key character in Royal Hospital , just like Dr. Joyce Readon and Ellen Rimbauer are the main characters in Red Rose.
King also wrote a nonfiction book, Faithful (2004), with novelist and fellow Red Sox fanatic Stewart O'Nan.
Throttle (2009), a novella written in collaboration with his son Joe Hill, appears in the anthology of He Is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson . Their second collaboration novella, In Grass High (2012), is published in two sections at Esquire . It was later released in e-book and audiobook format, the last one being read by Stephen Lang.
Stephen King and Richard Chizmar co-wrote Gwendy's Button Box released in May 2017 from Cemetery Dance Publications (in hardcover trade format) and on audiobooks from Simon & amp; Schuster Audio (audiobook has a short story bonus "The Music Room" which was originally published in Playboy).
The king and his son, Owen King, wrote the Sleeping Beauties novel, released in 2017, which is set in a women's prison.
Music
King is a Ramones fan, as far as he writes liner notes for Ramones tribute album 2003 We are a Happy Family . He stated that he agreed to write it because he "loved The Ramones from the first (he) heard it". Furthermore, King has referred to the band several times in his writings, both in fiction and non-fiction. The non-fiction references include mentioning in King Danse Macabre's book where he calls the Ramones "a funny punk-rock band that appeared about four years ago". He also wrote about them on On Writing , making reference to "dancing to Ramones - gabba gabba hey" as one of the reasons he has maintained a good marriage. The King incorporates further Ramones reference in his fictional work. He quotes the lyrics for Ramones' debut single "Blitzkrieg Bop" in his novel Pet Sematary on various occasions, as in the phrase "What is the Ramones saying? Hey-ho, let's go"! In The Dark Tower The wolf novel of Calla Ramones gets a further mention by the character Eddie Dean stating that "Roland stage-dives like Joey Ramone". Critics also noted the Ramones reference. Entertainment Weekly , for example, in their review of Black House by King and Peter Straub, note that King's "trademark reference" is in evidence, quoting Dee Dee Ramone. In turn, the Ramones have been referring King to their song "It's Not My Place (In 9 to 5 Worlds)", from their 1989 album Dreamland in line: "Ramones is hangin 'out in Kokomo/Roger Corman on talk show/With Allan Arkush and Stephen King ". Furthermore, Dee Dee Ramone wrote the song "Pet Sematary" in the King's basement after King submitted a copy of his novel. The song was finally shown as the title song for the movie Pet Sematary (1989) and also appeared on the Ramones Brain Drain album (1989).
King is also a fan of hard rock like AC/DC; he arranged for their album Who Made Who to be featured as a score for the movie he directed in 1986, Maximum Overdrive . King also stated that he likes heavy metal and has chosen bands such as Anthrax, Judas Priest and Metallica as one of his favorites to write. In 1988, the band Blue ÃÆ' â € "Cult yster recorded the latest version of his 1974 song" Astronomy ". The single released for the radio game featured the intro narrative uttered by King. The Blue ÃÆ' â € "yster Cult song" (Do not Fear) The Reaper "is also used in the TV series King The Stand .
King collaborated with Michael Jackson to create Ghosts (1996), a 40 minute music video. King stated that he was motivated to collaborate because he was "always interested in trying something new, and for (him), writing the minimus would be new". In 2012 King collaborated with musicians Shooter Jennings and his band Hierophant, providing a narration for their album, Black Ribbons . King plays guitar for rock band Rock Bottom Remainders, some of which are authors. Other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Sam Barry, and Greg Iles. Kings and other band members collaborated to release an e-book called Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (from the Author) Storytelling All (June 2013). King wrote the musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2012) with musician John Mellencamp.
Analysis
Writing style
Formula King to learn to write well is: "Read and write four to six hours a day If you can not find time for it, you can not expect to be a good writer." He sets daily with a quota of 2000 words and will not stop writing until it is fulfilled. He also has a simple definition for talent in writing: "If you write something that someone sends you a check, if you cashed a check and did not soar, and if you then pay the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
Shortly after his accident, King wrote the first draft of Dreamcatcher with a notebook and pen of Waterman, which he called "the best word processor in the world".
When asked why he wrote, King replied: "The answer is quite simple - there is nothing else I have to do, I am made to write stories and I like to write stories.That is why I do it.I can not really imagine doing anything else and I can not imagine not doing what I do. "He is also often asked why he wrote a frightening story and he answers with another question:" Why do you think I have a choice? " King usually starts the story-making process by imagining what "what if" scenarios, like what would happen if a writer was kidnapped by a sadistic nurse in Colorado.
King often uses the author as a character, or includes mentioning fictional books in his stories, novels and novels, such as Paul Sheldon who is the main character in Tribulation , Bill Denbrough's adult in This i>, Ben Mears at Salem's Lot , and Jack Torrance at The Shining . He has extended this to break the fourth wall by entering himself as a character in the Dark Tower series of Wolves of the Calla and so on. See also List of fiction books in Stephen King's works for the complete list. In September 2009 it was announced she would serve as a writer for Fangoria .
Influences
King has called Richard Matheson "the author who most influenced me as a writer". In the latest issue of Matheson The Shrinking Man , King is quoted as saying: "A horror story if ever... a great adventure story - it must be one of the few elected I have given to people, giving them the first reading experience. "Ray Bradbury was another influence, with King himself declaring" without Ray Bradbury, no Stephen King ".
The king refers to H. P. Lovecraft several times at Danse Macabre . "Gramma", a short story made into a film in the 1980s, the horror anthology show The New Twilight Zone, mentions the creation of the famous fiction Lovecraft Necronomicon , also borrowed the name name of the fictional monster mentioned in it. "I Know What You Need" from the 1976 collection of Night Shift , and 'Salem's Lot also mentions the thick book. However, in Writing, King was very critical of Lovecraft's writing writing skills, using parts of "The Color Out of Space" as a very bad example. There are also several examples of King which refers to the character and setting of Lovecraftian in his work, such as Nyarlathotep and Yog-Sothoth.
King acknowledged the influence of Bram Stoker, especially on Salem's Lot's novel, which he imagined to be the re-dragula . His short story "Lot Jerusalem" reminds Stoker of The Lair of the White Worm. He also gave Joseph Payne Brennan credit as one of his inspirations; "Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the most effective writers in the horror genre, and he is certainly one of the authors I created in my own career: one of the authors I studied and with whom I went to school."
King's The Shining drowned in gothic influences, including "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe (which is directly influenced by the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto < >). Hotel Overlook acts as a substitute for traditional gothic castles, and Jack Torrance is a tragic criminals looking for redemption.
King is also called the writer Shirley Jackson. Salem's Lot opened with an excerpt from Jackson The Haunting of Hill House , and the characters in Wolves from Calla references to Jackson's book We Always Staying in the Palace . King's Book 11/22/63 mentions Jackson's story "The Summer People". King is a fan of John D. MacDonald, and dedicates the novella "Sun Dog" to MacDonald, saying "I miss you, old friend." For its part, MacDonald wrote an introduction that admired Night Shift, and even had his famous character Travis McGee read Cujo in one of McGee's last novels and Pet Sematary in the last McGee novel, The Lonely Silver Rain.
In 1987, King's Philtrum Press published the novel Don Robertson The Ideal, Genuine Man . In his forenote for the novel, King writes, "Don Robertson is one of three writers who influenced me as a young man trying to be a novelist (the other two being Richard Matheson and John D. MacDonald)." Robert A. Heinlein The Door into Summer is repeatedly mentioned in King's
In an interview with King, published in the US Weekend in March 2009, the author stated, "People look at their preferred writers as irreplaceable resources I do Elmore Leonard, every day I wake up and - not be morbid or anything, even though the morbid is my life to some degree - do not see the obituary in the paper, I thought, "Great! He may work somewhere. He will produce another book, and I will have another book to read. Because when he leaves, there is no one else. "
King partially dedicated his book Cell to film director George Romero, and wrote an essay for the Elite DVD version of Night of the Living Dead.
Buku-buku favoritnya adalah (dalam urutan): The Golden Argosy ; Petualangan Huckleberry Finn ; The Satanic Verses ; McTeague ; Lord of the Flies ; Bleak House ; Nineteen Eighty-Four ; The Raj Quartet ; Light in August ; dan Blood Meridian .
Respons kritis
Although the critical reaction to King's work was largely positive, he was sometimes criticized by academic writers.
The science-fiction editor John Clute and Peter Nichols offer a very lucrative assessment of the King, noting "sharp prose, sharp ears for dialogue, loosened style, honest style, along with his harsh criticism of ignorance and human cruelty (especially in children) all of which rank] him among the more famous 'popular' writers. "
In his book The Philosophy of Horror (1990), NoÃÆ' Â «l Carroll discusses King's work as an example of modern horror fiction. Analyzing both King's fictional narrative structure and King's non-fictional formulation of art and craft writing, Carroll writes that for King, "horror stories are always a contest between normal and abnormal so normal is restored and, therefore, affirmed."
In his analysis of horror fiction post World War II, The Modern Weird Tale (2001), critic S. S. Joshi devotes a chapter to King's work. Joshi argues that the most famous works of King (his supernatural novels), are the worst, describe them as largely bloated, illogical, whiny, and prone to the late deus ex machina. In spite of these criticisms, Joshi argues that since Gerald's Game (1993), King has been tempting his worst writing errors, resulting in leaner, more reliable and generally better-written books. Joshi suggests that the King's power as a writer includes the quality of "anyone" accessible from his prose, and his unconditional observation of the pain and joy of adolescence. Joshi cites two early non-supernatural novels - Rage (1977) and The Running Man (1982) - as the best of the King, showing both the fascinating tension and being made with good. thriller, with a trustworthy character.
In 1996, King won the O. Henry Award for his short story "The Man in the Black Suit".
In his A Century collection of Great Suspense Stories, editor Jeffery Deaver notes that the King "makes popular adult fiction grow, even though there are many best-selling authors in front of him, King, more than anybody since John D. MacDonald, bringing reality to a genre novel He often says that Salem's Lot is " Peyton Place meets Dracula . And so it is. Rich characterization, careful and attentive social eyes, storyline interaction and character development announces that the authors can take outdated themes like vampires and make them fresh again. Before the King, many popular writers found their efforts to make their books written blue by their editors. "Things like that hinder the course of the story," they said. Well, things like that make King very popular, and help free the popular name from the shackles of simple genre writing. He is the master of masters. "
In 2003, King was honored by the National Book Awards with a lifetime achievement award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Some in the literary community expressed disapproval of the award: Richard E. Snyder, former CEO of Simon & amp; Schuster, describes King's work as "non-literary", and critic Harold Bloom denounces his choice:
The decision to award the National Book Foundation's annual award for "honorable contributions" to Stephen King is remarkable, another low in the process of surprisingly fooling our cultural life. I have described King in the past as a dreadful penny writer, but maybe that's too good. He does not share anything with Edgar Allan Poe. Is he a very inadequate writer on the basis of sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, book after book.
However, others came to King's defense, like the author of Orson Scott Card, who responded:
Let me assure you that King's work is literary, because it is written to be published and read with admiration. What Snyder really meant was that it was not the literature favored by the academic-literary elite.
King himself then states:
[Harold] Bloom never irritates me for criticism out there, and he is one of them, ignoring their ignorance of popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. He might be able to say that Mark Twain is a great writer, but it is impossible for him to say that there is a direct lineage from, say, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Jim Thompson because he did not read people like Thompson. He just thought, "I never read it, but I know he's horrible."
In Roger Ebert's review of 2004's "Secret Window" movie, he stated, "Many people are angry that [Kings] are respected at the National Book Awards, as if popular writers can not be taken seriously, but after finding that his book On Writing has more useful and more observant things to say about crafts than any other book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have forgotten my own arrogance. "
In 2008, King's On Writing book was ranked 21st on Entertainment Weekly's Entertainment Weekly list "The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008".
Appearance and adaptation in other media
The king and his wife Tabitha have Zone Radio Corp., a group of radio stations consisting of WZON/620 AM, WKIT-FM/100.3 & amp; WZLO/103.1.
King has stated that his favorite book-to-movie adaptations are Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist.
The first appearance on King's film is in George Romero Knightriders as a fanatical member of the audience. His first major role was in Creepshow , especially the segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" (The King has also written the original story), in which he plays a titular character. Since then he has made a brilliant acting in several adaptations of his works. She appeared in Petatriat as a minister at the cemetery, in Thinner as a pharmacist, at Rose Red as a pizza delivery as a news reporter at The Storm of the Century, on The Stand as "Teddy Wieszack," in the Shining miniseries as a band member, at The Langoliers as Tom Holby; in Sleepwalker as the cemetery guard and Golden Year as a bus driver. She has also appeared on Chappelle's Show and, along with fellow writer Amy Tan, on The Simpsons as herself. In addition to acting, King tried his hand to direct Maximum Overdrive, where he also made a cameo appearance as a man using a non-functioning ATM. King was also approached to appear in the movie Romero 1985 as "Day of the Dead" as a zombie. Although the King refused due to scheduling conflicts, a copy of one of his works made an appearance held by a zombie "Bub". King will once again work with Romero in 1993 when his work The Dark Half was filmed and directed by George Romero.
The king produces and acts in the television series, Royal Hospital , which is based on Danish miniseries Riget by Lars von Trier. He also co-wrote the episode of "Chinga" with episodes of "Chinga" with the creator of the Chris Carter series.
King appeared as a contestant in Celebrity Jeopardy! in 1995, playing to benefit Bangor Public Library.
King gave the voice of Abraham Lincoln in the audiobook version Holiday Homicide .
In 2010, King appeared in a cameo role as a cleanser named Bachman (a reference to Richard Bachman's pen name ) on the FX series Sons of Anarchy.
The Syfy TV series Haven is based on King's novel, The Colorado Kid .
Car accident and after effects
On June 19, 1999, at about 4:30 am, King was walking on the shoulder of Maine State Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. Bryan Edwin Smith's driver, distracted by an uncontrolled dog that moves behind his minivan, hit King, who landed on a depression on the ground about 14 feet (4 meters) off of the 5th Route sidewalk. According to Oxford County Sheriff's deputy Matt Baker, King was hit from behind and several witnesses said the driver was not speeding, reckless, or drinking. In his book When Writing King declares him heading north, running against the traffic. Shortly before the accident, a woman in the car also headed north past the first King and then the light blue Dodge van. The van was spinning from one side of the road to the other and she told the passenger that she wished "the guy in the van did not hit her".
The king was conscious enough to give the deputy phone number to contact his family, but suffered greatly. The author was first transported to Northern Cumberland Hospital in Bridgton and then flown by helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston. His wounds - a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right foot, lacerated scalp and hip fracture - keep him at CMMC until 9 July. His toe was so devastated that the doctor was initially thought to have amputated his leg, but stabilized the bone. in the foot with an external fixator. After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King returned to work on On Writing in July, though his hip was still shattered and he could sit only about forty minutes before the pain became unbearable.
King's lawyer and two others bought van Smith for $ 1,500, reportedly to prevent it from appearing on eBay. The van was then destroyed in the junkyard, much to the King's disappointment, as he fantasized about destroying it. King was later mentioned during an interview with Terry Gross's Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he wanted the vehicle destroyed at a charity event in which the individual would donate money for the opportunity to destroy it with a hammer.
During this time, Tabitha King was inspired to redesign his studio. The king visited the room while his books and his belongings were packed. What he saw was a picture of what looked like a studio if he died, giving seeds to his novel Lisey's Story (2006).
The car driver who hit King, Bryan Edwin Smith, was found dead at his home in Maine in September 2000 in the form of suicide. Smith had told his friends shortly before that he "could not face another winter".
In 2002, King announced that he would stop writing, apparently partly driven by frustration with his injuries, which made sitting uncomfortable and reducing his stamina. He has since resumed writing, but stated on his website:
I'm writing but I write at a much slower pace than before and I think if I get something very, very good, I'll be happy to publish it because it still feels like the final act of a creative process, publish it so people can read it and you can get feedback and people can talk to each other and with you, the author, but the power of my invention has slowed down over the years and that's as it should be.
Political activism
In April 2008, King spoke against HB 1423, a delayed bill in the state parliament of Massachusetts that would restrict or ban the sale of violent video games to anyone under the age of 18. Although the King states that he has no personal interest in video games. as a hobby, he criticizes the proposed law, which he perceives as an attempt by politicians to blame pop culture, and acts as a substitute parent for the children of others, whom he claims are usually "disastrous" and "undemocratic." He also sees the law as inconsistent, as it would prohibit a 17-year-old boy, legally able to see Hostel: Part II, from buying or renting Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
A controversy surfaced on May 5, 2008, when Noel Sheppard posted a King's clip at a Congressional Library reading event on the NewsBusters website. The king, talking to high school students, said: "If you can read, you can get into the job later or else you have the Army, Iraq, I do not know, something like that." The comment was described by the blog as "another in a long line of members of the military liberal bashing media," and likened to a similar remark by John Kerry from 2006. The king replied later that day, saying, "That right-blog wing will doubt my patriotism because I say children should learn to read, and can get a better job doing it, under humiliation... I live in a national guard city, and I support our troops, but I do not support war or education policies that limit men's choice and young woman for a career - military or otherwise. "King again defended his comments in an interview with Bangor Daily News on May 8, saying," I will not apologize for promoting that children get the education that better in high school, so they have more choices, those who do not agree with what I say, I do not n change their minds. "King then expressed regret over the remark, saying that he was wrong to speak.She characterized the comment as coming from" brain cramps ", and the fact no longer lives in the world in which he grew up, saying that during the Vietnam War, serving in the military was a career great for some, and for others, the sacrifice of two years of one's life. King added that he believed that everyone should be required for some kind of government service or altruism.
King's website states that he is a Democratic Party supporter. During the 2008 presidential election, the King voiced his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama. The king is quoted as the caller of conservative commentator Glenn Beck "a young brother who has a mental challenge."
On March 8, 2011, King spoke at a political meeting in Sarasota aimed against Gubernator Rick Scott (R-FL), voicing his opposition to the Tea Party movement.
On April 30, 2012, King published an article in The Daily Beast calling on rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, citing it as "the practical need and moral obligation that those who have received many must be required to pay... in equal proportions ".
On January 25, 2013, King published an essay entitled "Weapons" through a single feature of Kindle Amazon.com, which discussed the gun debate behind the Sandy Hook Elementary School photo shoot. The king called on arms owners to support the prohibition of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, writes, "Autos and semi-autos are weapons of mass destruction... When madmen want to fight against unarmed and unprepared, this is the weapon they use." The essay became the fifth best-selling non-fiction title for the Kindle.
King publicly criticized Donald Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign for his critically controversial comments on Mexican immigrants to the United States. On August 6, 2015, King posted on Twitter: "How is this for the Trump campaign slogan: IF YOU ARE WHITE, YOU ARE ALL RIGHT! EVERYTHING OTHER THINGS, I DO NOT AGREE TO YOU." On June 5, 2016, King referred to Trump on Twitter as "a thin-skinned racist with the temperament of a 3-year-old boy." Trump then blocked it on Twitter, with King responding: "I'm hereby blocking her from seeing IT or Mercedes.No clowns for you, Donald. Go flying by yourself."
Maine Politics
King has confirmed Shenna Bellows in the 2014 US Senate elections for seats held by Republican Susan Collins.
King is a public critic of Paul LePage, the Governor of the Republic of Maine, and has named LePage as one of the Three Stooges, along with Florida Governor Rick Scott and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. He was critical of LePage for falsely suggesting a weekly radio address on March 18, 2015, that the King avoided paying Maine income taxes to live out of state for this year. The statement was later corrected by the governor's office but no apology was issued. The king says LePage is "full of things that make grass grow green" and demanded LePage "get up and apologize". LePage refused to apologize to the King, stating "I never said Stephen King is not paying income taxes." What I'm saying is, Stephen King is not in Maine right now, that's what I'm saying. " LePage further told the King that he should "make me a criminal from your next book and I will not charge you royalties".
Attention accumulated by LePage criticism has led efforts to encourage the King to run for governor of Maine in 2018. Bangor city councilman Joe Baldacci posted on his Facebook page that he started Draft Stephen King's efforts, and Democratic Republicans Diane Russell launched a petition to encourage the King to run. His spokesman posted to Baldacci's Facebook comments that he would likely refuse to run, and the King himself declared he would not run or serve on March 23 while still criticizing what he said was "laziness that infuriated him" about not checking tax payments and that LePage has "the problem of finding a pair of comfortable big pants".
King sent a tweet on June 30, 2015, stating that LePage is "very embarrassing for the country I live in and love." If he does not want to rule, he should resign. He then clarified that he did not call LePage to resign, but to "go to work or return home". On August 27, 2016, King sent another tweet about LePage, calling him "a bigot, a homophobe, and a racist".
Philanthropy
King has stated that he donates about $ 4 million per year "to libraries, local fire departments that need updated life-saving equipment (Jaws of Life tools always popular demand), schools, and scattering organizations that ensure art."
The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, headed by the author and his wife, ranks sixth among Maine charities in terms of granting an annual average of more than $ 2.8 million in grants per year, according to The Grantsmanship Center.
In November 2011, the STK Foundation donated $ 70,000 in appropriate funding through its radio station to help pay heating bills to needy families in his hometown of Bangor, Maine, during the winter.
Personal life
King married Tabitha Spruce in 1971. He is also a novelist and philanthropist activist. The couple own and occupy three different homes: one in Bangor, Maine, one in Lovell, Maine, and for the winter of a seaside house located in the Gulf of Mexico in Sarasota, Florida. The Kings has three children, a girl and two boys, and four grandchildren. Their daughter, Naomi, is minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church at Plantation, Florida, with her same-sex partner, Pdt. Dr. Thandeka. The two sons of the King are authors: Owen King publishes his first collection of stories, We're All in This Together: Novella and Stories , in 2005. Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes as Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, in 2005. His debut novel, The Heart-shaped Box (2007), was chosen by Warners Bros..
King's addiction to alcohol and other drugs was very serious during the 1980s, as he admitted in On Writing in 2000, he could barely remember writing Cujo . Shortly after the publication of the novel, King's family and friends intervened, throwing on the carpet in front of her proof of addiction taken from her office including beer cans, cigarette butts, cocaine grams, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan (cough medicine) and marijuana. As King was linked in his memoirs, he then sought help, stopped all drugs (including alcohol) in the late 1980s, and remained sober since then. The first novel he wrote after becoming conscious was The Needs .
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