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September 21, 1947 Stephen Edwin King is born in Maine General Hospital in Portland, son of Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Phillsbury. He's got a brother, David, who had been adopted by the Kings two years before. At the time of his birth, the Kings lived in Scarborough, in Cumberland county, in south-eastern Maine.
1949 Donald King abandons his family. It is now up to Nellie Ruth, who is forced to move more than once: at first to Fort Wayne (Indiana), then to Stratford (Connecticut), then finally back to Maine (in Durham, in his Mother's fathers house) in 1958.
1954 He writes his first short story.
1959 In his aunt's attic, Stephen finds the books that had belonged to his father, who was fond of Poe, Lovecraft and Matheson.
1962 He begins to attend Lisbon High School in Lisbon Falls near Durham.
1965 "Comic Review" magazine publishes I was a teenage grave robber. It is the first time Stephen King gets paid for something he has written.
1966 He graduates and begins attending the Maine University in Orono. But above all this is the year of the first drafting of Getting it on, that will be later called Rage.
1970 This year is marked by King's degree in English Literature, his meeting with Tabitha Jane Spruce and also by the beginning of the Dark Tower project. He starts to work at first in a filling station, then in a laundry.
On January 2, 1971 he marries Tabitha.
After experiencing several humble jobs, he starts teaching English at Hampden Academy.
1972 Naomi Rachel, their first daughter, is born.
The Kings move to Hermon, near Bangor.
Stephen starts working on The Running Man.
1973 The Kings' second son, Joseph Hill, is born.
They move to southern Maine because Nellie, Stephen's mother, is ill. She dies of a cancer at 59 in the same period.
Stephen starts the drafting of Salem's Lot and Roadwork.
And finally, the first request for a novel, Carrie , for which Stephen gets a payment of 2,500 US Dollars from Doubleday. A successive payment of 200,000 $ for the paperback copyright allows Stephen to quit teaching to dedicate himself completely to writing.
The situation grows ever worst, King sees his works refused and starts drinking. Lost his heart, Stephen decides to destroy the manuscript of Carrie. Tabitha will luckily save it and send it to Doubleday publishing house.
Carrie is published in the Spring of 1974, achieving a great success and taking King from the abyss of self destruction towards an unbelievable series of successful events.
In 1977 King decides to make up a second identity, the writer Richard Bachman. As Bachman he succeeds in publishing five of his youth novels. Bachman seemed to be promising a great career when, in 1985, a careful fan discovers King's double literary identity.
But now King is running at full speed. He publishes about two books every year writing at least for four hours every day, 362 days a-year, resting only on the 4th of July, Christmas Day and his birthday.
By now he lives in a Victorian style house in Bangor (Maine) with his wife Tabitha and their three sons and daughters: Naomi Rachel, Joseph Hillstrom and Owen Phillip.
king
September 21, 1947 Stephen Edwin King is born in Maine General Hospital in Portland, son of Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Phillsbury. He's got a brother, David, who had been adopted by the Kings two years before. At the time of his birth, the Kings lived in Scarborough, in Cumberland county, in south-eastern Maine.
1949 Donald King abandons his family. It is now up to Nellie Ruth, who is forced to move more than once: at first to Fort Wayne (Indiana), then to Stratford (Connecticut), then finally back to Maine (in Durham, in his Mother's fathers house) in 1958.
1954 He writes his first short story.
1959 In his aunt's attic, Stephen finds the books that had belonged to his father, who was fond of Poe, Lovecraft and Matheson.
1962 He begins to attend Lisbon High School in Lisbon Falls near Durham.
1965 "Comic Review" magazine publishes I was a teenage grave robber. It is the first time Stephen King gets paid for something he has written.
1966 He graduates and begins attending the Maine University in Orono. But above all this is the year of the first drafting of Getting it on, that will be later called Rage.
1970 This year is marked by King's degree in English Literature, his meeting with Tabitha Jane Spruce and also by the beginning of the Dark Tower project. He starts to work at first in a filling station, then in a laundry.
On January 2, 1971 he marries Tabitha.
After experiencing several humble jobs, he starts teaching English at Hampden Academy.
1972 Naomi Rachel, their first daughter, is born.
The Kings move to Hermon, near Bangor.
Stephen starts working on The Running Man.
1973 The Kings' second son, Joseph Hill, is born.
They move to southern Maine because Nellie, Stephen's mother, is ill. She dies of a cancer at 59 in the same period.
Stephen starts the drafting of Salem's Lot and Roadwork.
And finally, the first request for a novel, Carrie , for which Stephen gets a payment of 2,500 US Dollars from Doubleday. A successive payment of 200,000 $ for the paperback copyright allows Stephen to quit teaching to dedicate himself completely to writing.
The situation grows ever worst, King sees his works refused and starts drinking. Lost his heart, Stephen decides to destroy the manuscript of Carrie. Tabitha will luckily save it and send it to Doubleday publishing house.
Carrie is published in the Spring of 1974, achieving a great success and taking King from the abyss of self destruction towards an unbelievable series of successful events.
In 1977 King decides to make up a second identity, the writer Richard Bachman. As Bachman he succeeds in publishing five of his youth novels. Bachman seemed to be promising a great career when, in 1985, a careful fan discovers King's double literary identity.
But now King is running at full speed. He publishes about two books every year writing at least for four hours every day, 362 days a-year, resting only on the 4th of July, Christmas Day and his birthday.
By now he lives in a Victorian style house in Bangor (Maine) with his wife Tabitha and their three sons and daughters: Naomi Rachel, Joseph Hillstrom and Owen Phillip.