Who is Stephen King?
Stephen Edwin King was born on 21 September 1947 in Portland, Maine, a place that later became the setting for most of his novels. King spent his childhood moving around with his mother and adopted older brother, often suffering from severe financial strain. Stephen King started writing stories at an early age. At ten, he started writing science fiction stories based on popular movie characters and selling the stories to his classmates. Two years later, when his brother started his own “garage-paper” called Dave’s Rag, Stephen King became a frequent contributor. In 1971, Stephen King graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Arts in English and became a high school teacher. In the same year, he married aspiring novelist Tabitha Spruce, with whom he shared a trailer outside the city. The Kings went through some rough times, barely making it unless Stephen King was able to sell a short story to a magazine. In the space of a few years, Stephen King began several novels tha
