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Stephen King:
American novelist and short-story writer,whose enormously popular books revived
the interest in horror fiction from the 1970s.King's place in the modern horror
fiction can be compared to that of J.R.R.Tolkien's who created the modern genre
of fantasy.SKing has expressed the fundamental concerns of his era,and used the horror
genre as his own branch of artistic expression.King has underlined,that even
in the world of cynicism,despair,and cruelties,it remains possible for
individuals to find love and discover unexpected resources in themselves.His
characters often conquer their own problems and malevolent powers that would
suppress or destroy them.
Stephen King was born in Portland,Maine.His father,a merchant seaman,
deserted the family in 1950.The young Stephen and his brother David were raised
in Durham,Maine,by their mother who worked in odd jobs to support her
children.At the age of six,he had his eardrum punctured several times 鈥 a
painful experience which he never forgot.King attended a grammar school in
Durham and Lisbon Falls High school,where he started to write short stories and
played in an amateur rock band.In 1960 he submitted his first story for
publication 鈥 it was rejected.He edited the school newspaper,The Drum,
and also wrote for the local newspaper,Lisbon Weekly Enterprise.His
first story,entitled 'In a Half-World of Terror',came out in a horror fanzine.
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Stephen King was born in Portland,Maine.His father,a merchant seaman,
deserted the family in 1950.The young Stephen and his brother David were raised
in Durham,Maine,by their mother who worked in odd jobs to support her
children.At the age of six,he had his eardrum punctured several times 鈥 a
painful experience which he never forgot.King attended a grammar school in
Durham and Lisbon Falls High school,where he started to write short stories and
played in an amateur rock band.In 1960 he submitted his first story for
publication 鈥 it was rejected.He edited the school newspaper,The Drum,
and also wrote for the local newspaper,Lisbon Weekly Enterprise.His
first story,entitled 'In a Half-World of Terror',came out in a horror fanzine.
In 1970 King graduated from the University of Maine.Next year he married
Tabitha Spruce,who has also gained fame as a writer.My wife is the person in
my life who's most likely to say I'm working too hard,it's time to slow down,
stay away from that damn PowerBook for a little while,Steve,give it a
rest. (in On Writing,2000) Most of his career King has lived in Bangor,Maine.Many of
his books are set in the imaginary town of Castle Rock,Maine,which is totally
destroyed by greed in Needful Things (1993).Since the late 2000s,King
has spend with his wife winters in Florida,near Sarasota.
From 1971 to 1974 King was an instructor at the Hampden Academy,earning
$6,400 a year.His first novel,Carrie (1974),was a tale of a girl with
telekinetic powers.King had thrown the first pages of the story in a garbage
pail,but his wife rescued them and urged him to finish the work.Carrie
had first only a moderate success and sold 13 000 copies in hardcover.However,
Signet paid $400,000 for its paperback rights.Carrie's film version was
launched in 1976 and after the breakthrough novel Salem's Lot (1976),
King established quickly his reputation as a major horror writer.
In the late summer of 1974 King moved with his family to Colorado for an
extended holiday.He visited the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park,and set there his
next novel,The Shining (1975).Though Stanley Kubrick's adaptation
of the book to the screen was praised by reviewers,it did not satisfy the
author,and he King himself turned his novel into a television miniseries in
1997.
In between The Shining and The Stand,King produced the
first 75 pages for a new novel,but abandoned the manuscript.He wrote a second,
unpublished version called The Cannibals in 1985 and started again in
2007.The finished work,Under the Dome (2009),told of the residents
of a small town who are trapped beneath a giant dome.A sort of psychological
laboratory,isolated from the rest of the world,the town
becomes the scene of a struggle between the social bond and the unbound drives.
Like in many of his other works,the story looks into the materialization of
our own inner demons.
The Dead Zone (1979) and 11.22.63 (2011) tackled the
subject of the possibility of altering the course of history.Highly popular and
internationally acclaimed author,King's own work has definitely changed the
genre of horror fiction.His first paperbacks King wrote under the name of
Richard Bachman:he wanted to to create an alter-ego so that he could experiment
with new styles and publish more than one book a year.The Talisman
(1984) and its sequel,The Black House (2001),were written with Peter
Staub.Christine (1983) was censored and
banned in many schools for containing explicit sexual thought of teenage boys.
Parents of students have also attacked
Carrie,Firestarter,The Shining,and The Stand,complaining that they should be
removed from the school library.
King has also published non-fiction.In his collection of essays,Danse
Macabre (1981),King described the writing process as a kind of dance in
which the author searches out the private fears of each reader.In the textbook
of macabre he goes through the horror genre,from film monsters to books,
focusing mostly on the post-war era.It's not a dance of death at all,not
really.There is a third lever here,as well.It is,at bottom,a dance of
dreams.It's a way of awakening the child inside,who never dies but only sleeps
ever more deeply.If the horror story is rehearsal for death,then its strict
moralities make it also a reaffirmation of life and good will and simple
imagination 鈥 just one more pipeline to the infinite. (in
Dance Macabre)
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