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STEPHEN KING COMPLETE COLLECTION

STEPHEN KING COMPLETE COLLECTION



Author(s): Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of the elderly couple. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

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.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication. On Mother's Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time.

At the end of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved their growing family to southern Maine because of Stephen's mother's failing health. Renting a summer home on Sebago Lake in North Windham for the winter, Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before it became 'Salem's Lot, in a small room in the garage. During this period, Stephen's mother died of cancer, at the age of 59.

Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton.

In 1977, the Kings spent three months of a projected year- long stay in England, cut the sojourn short and returned home in mid-December, purchasing a new home in Center Lovell, Maine. After living there one summer, the Kings moved north to Orrington, near Bangor, so that Stephen could teach creative writing at the University of Maine at Orono. The Kings returned to Center Lovell in the spring of 1979. In 1980, the Kings purchased a second home in Bangor, retaining the Center Lovell house as a summer home.

Stephen and Tabitha now spend winters in Florida and the remainder of the year at their Bangor and Center Lovell homes.

The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, and three grandchildren.

Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6'4" and weighs about 200 pounds. He is blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and has thick, black hair, with a frost of white most noticeable in his beard, which he sometimes wears between the end of the World Series and the opening of baseball spring training in Florida. Occasionally he wears a moustache in other seasons. He has worn glasses since he was a child.

He has put some of his college dramatic society experience to use doing cameos in several of the film adaptations of his works as well as a bit part in a George Romero picture, Knightriders. Joe Hill King also appeared in Creepshow, which was released in 1982. Stephen made his directorial debut, as well as writing the screenplay, for the movie Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of his short story "Trucks") in 1985.

Stephen and Tabitha provide scholarships for local high school students and contribute to many other local and national charities.

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Stephen KIng - 1 - The Langoliers.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen KIng - 3 - The Sun Dog.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen KIng - 4 - The Library Policeman.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King & Peter Straub - Black House.pdf 6 Mb
Stephen King - 2 - Secret window, secret garden.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - A Bedroom In The Wee Hours Of The Morning.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - A note On The sun Dog.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - An Evening At Gods.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Bag Of Bones.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Battleground.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Before The Play.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Black House.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Carrie.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Cujo.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Cycle of the Werewolf.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Dead Zone.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Dolans Cadillac.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Dreamcatcher.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Everything's Eventual.pdf 2 Mb
Stephen King - From A Buick 8.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Graveyard Shift.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Grey Matter.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Hotel At The End Of The Road.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - I Am The Doorway.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - I Know What You Need.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Insomnia.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Introduction.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - It.pdf 3 Mb
Stephen King - Ive Got To Get Away.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - LT's Theory Of Pets.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Lets Talk About Fear.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Needful Things.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Never Look Behind You.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Night Surf.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - On Writing.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - One For The Road.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - One Past Midnight.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Pet Semetary.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Quitters, Inc.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Riding the Bullet.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Rose Madder.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Six Stories.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Skybar.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Sneekers.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Sometimes They Come Back.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Straight Up Midnight.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Strawberry Spring.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Survivor Type.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Bachman Books.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Blue Air Compressor.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Boogey Man.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Collective.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Crate.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Dark Man.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Dark Tower 1-5.pdf 10 Mb
Stephen King - The Dark Tower 4 - Wizard and Glass.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Dark Tower 5 - The Wolves of the Calla.pdf 2 Mb
Stephen King - The Dark Tower 6 - Song of Susannah.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower.pdf 5 Mb
Stephen King - The Dead Zone.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Eyes Of The Dragon.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Green Mile.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Jaunt.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Last Rung On The Ladder.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Lawnmower Man.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Ledge.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Little Sisters of Eluria.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Man Who Loved Flowers.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Mangler.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Monkey.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Plant - 1 - 6.pdf 2 Mb
Stephen King - The Regulators.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Road Virus Heads North.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The Shining.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Stand .pdf 2 Mb
Stephen King - The Talisman .pdf 2 Mb
Stephen King - The Tommyknockers.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - The Woman In The Room.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - The girl who loved Tom Gordon.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Thinner.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Three Past Midnight.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Trucks.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Two Past Midnight.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen King - Umney's Last Case.pdf 0 Mb
Stephen King - Uncollected Stories 2003 ed.pdf 1 Mb
Stephen king - Mist.pdf 0 Mb

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