Meet the author!
STEPHEN KING (1947 - present) Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947 in Portland, ME, U.S.) is one of the most acclaimed horror writers in his genre. He has written almost 100 works, and he has been nominated for 170 awards during his career. King graduated from the University of Maine in 1970, and later worked in different jobs, while he wrote his first novel, Carrie , which was a huge success the minute it was published, in 1974. He has been interested in writing since he was very young. In fact, he wrote some short stories which were published in the newspaper. He explains this in his autobiographical work, On Writing - this is an account of his early youth and beginnings as a writer, but it is also a "manual" on how to be a good writer. He explains: "One day late in my final semester at college, finals over and at loose ends, I recalled the dyehouse guy’s story about the rats under the mill—big as cats, goddam, some as big as dogs—and start