What year was it that Stephen King wrote his very first novel and what was the title?
Stephen King chews another grape and smiles happily. The first reviews of his latest novel, Lisey’s Story, have begun to trickle in on this, the first day of publication, and all are hugely positive. They may, in fact, be the best reviews of his career, and his delight, even 33 years after the publication of his first book, is genuine and undisguised. The pleasure he takes in them has a number of roots. It’s clear that Lisey’s Story is important to him, which is why he has taken to the promotional trail for the first time in seven years in order to publicise it. He knows that it is one of his best books, a beautifully written study of a long marriage and the grief that follows the death of a spouse, as well as an examination of the sometimes ambivalent relationship between the writer and the creative process. “Every long marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark,” as the book puts it at one point and, even if King is keener to point out the ways in which it differs from his own l
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. More than 350 million copies[2] of King’s novels and short story collections have been sold, and many of his stories have been adapted for film, television, and other media. King has written a number of books using the pen name Richard Bachman, and one short story, “The Fifth Quarter”, as John Swithen. In 2003 the National Book Foundation awarded King the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
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. Stanley Kubrick’s film version of the book, from 1977, did not satisfy the author, and he King himself turned his novel into a television miniseries in 1997. Sources: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sking.
