Stephen King was one most of the popular American authors in history. He was
born in Portland, Marine on Sept 21, 1947. He was raised by his mother, Nellie Pillsbury,
and his father, Donald King. Today, Stephen King and his wife, Tabitha King, are living
in Florida. “He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in the
stacks of the Fog Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as
students.” (King) He published his first horror novel while study at the University.
“While at college, King supported his education and family’s hard pressed finance by
taking small jobs and selling stories to various magazines.” During his early career, he
was famous for a series of horror novel called, “Dark Tower Stories”. In the late 1990s,
he was injured by a car crash which resulted in a very bad condition in his leg and lung,
too (“Stephen Edwin King”). Now, he and his wife support local community charities
and a scholarship for local high school students in Florida (King). Stephen King show of
his life where it has influences of his writing and how it did impact many people.
King’s fascination with honor of fact his writing throughout his career. The first
evidence of Stephen King being very interest in horror showed in his work in his early
education (“Stephen Edwin King”). He read a scary comic book which affected how he
wrote (“Biography of Stephen King”). “Much of King’s early works were science fiction
based, but because he lacked the scientific grounding, they tended to be a bit thin on
detail, but still excellent for someone of his age.” Later, he combined science fiction and
fantasy in his writing to have more eff...
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great reputation and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He died of heart
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.
Writer Stephen King’s death sounds like something out of one of his novels. He died early yesterday morning when he was struck by a car on a lonely dirt road near his house in Portland, Maine. Officials said that King was on a daily walk on a deserted road when an unidentified driver hit him.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential writers to date. His thrill filled tales of darkness and death helped people see a different side of romantic literature. Many believe that his isolated life and drinking problem helped influence his works. Poe showed his most prominent life accomplishment and disappointments through his life in his stories. He defined a lot of his life’s parallels through his works.
The claims that Stephen King makes throughout his essay, has implied that we not only crave horror but we need some type of horror in our lives. Horror allows human to release that insanity we have lingering within ourselves.Though, if we do not have our cathartic release to free all the wicked emotions, then it stays bottle up within our bodies. We keep it there, never going away, and it grows bigger and bigger until it finally takes control. However, we all do not want to end up like Jack the Ripper, Springheel Jack, or any other famous killers in the horror films we watch. Stephen King’s three claims are true to mankind and related to humans daily but it depends on how we respond. Like the Human Condition, we all experience fear, crave of evil, realities that might lead to tragedy but it is determined by the way the person responds to the fear, tempting evilness, and the distress of
also affected his writing greatly, especially his father (Books). The time period of his life aslo
"If you have an imagination, let it run free." - Steven King, 1963 Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels, has broadened his horizons to different types of writings such as movie scripts, nonfiction, autobiographies, children's books, and short stories.
Douglass endured a brutal life as he was born into slavery, a major disadvantage, which challenged him to transform not only his own life but the lives of others so that they would not have to experience the torturous life as a slave. Douglass was betrayed by his family as they dropped him off at a plantation because they could not take care of him (PBS N.P.). His brutal life as a slave was compounded by the fact that his parents only gave him one thing in life, a white master. This tragic event allowed Douglass to put immense passion and emotion into his writing. He was not only writing to degrade the slave ridden society but to make a name for himself because he had no family to rely upon. His contributions to literature were immeasurable as he wrote from a perspective that had never been investigated. He added to the Southern culture accurate events that happened and the true life of a slave that historians later picked up. He taught himself how to read and write so his form was completely unique and personal (D...
Stephen King is a well-known and talented horror/fiction author who has published over eleven books in the last two decades. His great stories of horror and fantasy have been enjoyed by kids and adults starting from his first best-seller, Carrie. King's wit and style of writing has made him one of the most popular horror story authors today. Stephen King's life has not been an easy one.
Stephen King was born in Maine in 1947. His father abandoned him when he was 2 years old. His mother and brother was all he ever knew. Him and his brother were raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana where his father lived at the time. He was also raised in Connecticut too. His mother decided to move them back to Maine for their own good. There he got a job at Kitchens of Pineland. A kitchen of Pineland was by a mentally challenged hospital. He went to a Durham grammar school then attended Libson High School. In 1966, He graduated. At University of Maine of Orana, he was a sophomore that wrote for The Maine Campus, the school’s newspaper. He became a member of the Student Senate in Student politician. He also attended an Anti-war movement. In 1970, he graduated. His examination was a 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. From his examinations, he got a diploma to be a full time teacher.
King credits the name for his pseudonym to a book by Richard Matheson that was on his desk and Bachman-Turner Overdrive that was playing on the radio when his publisher called to ask what pseudonym he wanted to use (Wood 148).
We all have cravings, be it for snacks or sweets, there is always something we desire. We crave horror in the same way. In Stephen King’s essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” he argues that people need to watch horror films in order to release the negative emotions within us. King believes that people feel enjoyment while watching others be terrorized or killed in horror movies. King’s argument has elements that are both agreeable and disagreeable. On one hand he is acceptable when claiming we like the thrill and excitement that comes from watching horror movies; however, his views regarding that the fun comes from seeing others suffer cannot be agreed with because the human condition is not as immoral as he claims it to be.
For such a successful writer, Stephen King really had no secret to his writing style. King has credited free writing for his best ideas. He also has a very down to earth way of looking at his fame. Stephen King would read for four hours, and then he would write for four hours or until he reached 2,000 words. In a Time magazine interview, King called this his nine to five approach and that he, “worked until beer o’ clock.” When asked where his ideas came from, King would often reply, “I have the heart of a small boy. . . And I keep it in a jar on my desk.” Also, he does not have just one particular way of writing horror, and what often sets off the terror in his readers most was the vast amount of detail portrayed.
From the later eighteenth century all the way to present day, the gothic genre has appeared sporadically in many poems, short stories, and films. Contradictory to the Age of Enlightenment, an era believed to have valued reason above all others, gothic fiction explored more of the darker aspects of human nature. The concept of a supernatural literary genre was first analyzed by English writers, such as Walpole and Radcliffe, during the transition between the eighteenth and nineteenth century (1750-1800). Although, the first known accounts of gothic literature by American writers wasn’t until the early 1800s with works like Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” in 1839. Since
King owes his success to his ability to take what he says are “real fears” (The Stephen King Story, 47) and turn them into a horror story. When he says “real fears” they are things we have all thought of such as a monster under the bed or even a child kidnapping and he is making them a reality in his story. King looks at “horror fiction...as a metaphor” (46) for everything that goes wrong in our lives. His mind and writing seems to dwell in the depths of the American people’s fears and nightmares and this is what causes his writing to reach so many people and cause the terror he writes about to be instilled in his reader.