Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, 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 them. 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 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 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 met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. 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 were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English 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.
Series
Books
I Am the Doorway
1978
Revelations
Horror Writers for Climate Action
2022
The Shawshank Redemption
Different Seasons
1994
Après
2021
The Jaunt
1981
You Know They Got A Hell of a Band
1979
Stephen King 6
The Bachman Books/Thinner/The Tommyknockers
2023
The Outsider
2018
Stephen King
The Playboy Interview
1983
Uncle Otto's Truck
2007
The Fifth Step
2020
Things They Left Behind
2005
One Past Midnight
1990
Six Stories
1997
The Green Mile, Part 1
The Two Dead Girls
1996
Die Leiche
Novelle
2020
The Wind Through the Keyhole
2012
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume II
1993
Nightmares in the Sky
1988
Ça - 1
1986
Misery
1987
Black House
2001
Stephen King Goes to the Movies
2009
The Dark Tower Series Books Volume 1 - 8 Collection Set by Stephen King
2012
The Plant
2000
A incendiária
O livro que inspirou o filme "Chamas da Vingança" (Coleção Biblioteca Stephen King)
2018
You Like It Darker
2024
The Crate
1979
The Stand, Part 2 of 2
1978
The Battle of Jericho Hill
2010
Страна радости
2013
The Fifth Quarter
1972
Here There Be Tygers
1968
Stationary Bike
2003
The Stand - A Dança da Morte - Livro I
2021
Dedication
2023
Por los aires
2018
Баллада о гибкой пуле [The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet]
1984
Bazaar 2
1991
American Vampire
Book One
2010
I Am the Doorway & One for the Road
1977
Dolan's Cadillac, and Other Stories
2009
Cain Rose Up
2025
If It Bleeds
2020
NEW-The Mist
2025
Guns. Contro le armi
2021
Tout est fatal
2011
Squad D
2018
Pet Sematary
1983
1408 and Other Stories
2014
A Face in the Crowd
2012
Strawberry Spring
2021
Sleeping Beauties
Deluxe Remastered Edition
2024
Cookie Jar
2016
Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling
2023
Creepshow
1982
Historias fantásticas
1985
The Lawnmower Man
Stories from Night Shift
1995
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
1999
11/22/63
2011
W świetle i w mroku. Opowiadania inspirowane malarstwem Edwarda Hoppera
2016
The Dead Zone/Cujo
1997
Cycle of the Werewolf
1983
The Dark Tower Series
Books 1-7
2005
Omnibus
bevat : vlucht naar de top. Marathon. Werk in uitvoering
2025
Billy Summers
2021
1922
2010
The House on Maple Street
and Other Stories
2009
Rat
2025
Pet Sematary / Carrie / Nightshift
1979
Stephen King 10 Novel Paperback Set
2002
Herman Wouk Is Still Alive
2011
The Breathing Method
1999
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands
2025
Lightspeed
Year One
2011
The Dead That Walk
Flesh-Eating Stories
2009
Sometimes They Come Back
1974
Fairy Tale
2022
The Mist
1980
The Woman in the Room
1978
Nachts
1990
Everything's Eventual
5 Dark Tales
2002
Acclaimed Stories from the World's Bestselling Author
Different Seasons; Skeleton Crew; Nightmares & Dreamscapes
1988
Mr. Mercedes
2014
Malignos y macabros
22 relatos para tener pesadillas
1995
The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan
1975
El cuerpo
1982
Never Flinch
2025
The Eyes of the Dragon
1987
Obits
2015
Just After Sunset
2008
Everything's Eventual
2023
On Impact
2000
Minden sötét, csillag sehol
2011
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
2011
Riding the Bullet
The Deluxe Special Edition Double
2010
Nécro
2023
The Moving Finger
2025
Three Past Midnight
The Library Policeman
1990
Четири след полунощ, част I
Ланголиерите; Таен прозорец, тайна градина
1992
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
2010
Premium Harmony
2009
Song of Susannah
2004
The Waste Lands
1991
The Gunslinger
1982
Hansel and Gretel
2025
Road Rage
2012
The End of the Whole Mess and Other Stories
2009
It Grows on You, and Other Stories
2009
Holly
2023
Saco de ossos
2001
Pátá čtvrtina
Noční můry a snové výjevy
1993
Tas. 1. grāmata
1986
An Evening at GODs
2016
L'Occhio Del Male
1984
Yellow Morning
2009
The Institute
2019
Le Molosse surgi du soleil
2020
Big Driver
2010
Uporište III deo
1978
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
1993
’Salem’s Lot
1975
Christine
1983
Under the Dome
Part Two
2009
Łowca snów, część 2
2015
The Ledge
1976
Later
2021
Batman und Robin haben einen Disput
2012
Slade
1970
Hodina děsu
1992
The Turbulence Expert
2018
LT's Theory of Pets
2001
Crouch End
2016
Mister Yummy
2015
Finders Keepers
2015
The Road Virus Heads North
2006
Dark Tower Battle of Jericho Hill 5 Issue 1st Print Comic Set
2010
Blockade Billy
2010
Joyland
2013
Needful Things
1991
Jerusalem's Lot
2000
Vlucht naar de top & De marathon
1982
The Dark Tower
2002
Battleground
1972
The Glass Floor
1967
Desperation
1996
Колір зла
1987
American Vampire #1
2010
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2
2014
Zombies
Encounters with the Hungry Dead
2009
Czarna bezgwiezdna noc
2016
Everything's Eventual
2002
The Stand, Part 1 of 2
1978
Stephen King Box Set
Mr. Mercedes, Everything's Eventual, Lisey's Story
2015
The Shining
1977
The Dark Half
1989
11/22/63 上
2012
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, from Skeleton Crew
1984
Skeleton Crew
Selections
1985
Dreamcatcher
2001
It
1986
The Boogeyman
1973
Insomnia
1994
Best American Magazine Writing 2013
2013
La lunga marcia - L'uomo in fuga
1987
People, Places, and Things
1960
El hombre del traje negro
2020
Le Singe, suivi de Le chenal
2001
Stephen King's Battleground
A Commemoration of the Emmy-Winning Television Adaptation
2012
The Green Mile, Part 3
Coffey's Hands
1996
The Monkey
1980
Never Look Behind You
1960
Survivor Type
1982
Wolves of the Calla
2003
Elevation
2018
The Dark Tower
2004
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
2023
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I
1993
Dolores Claiborne / Nightmares and Dreamscapes
1993
Drunken Fireworks
2015
Sleeping Beauties (Comics Sleeping Beauties, Tome 2)
2023
Different Seasons
1982
Children of the Corn
1977
L'uomo in nero
1672
Razernij / De marathon
1991
End of Watch
2016
Dôme - tome 1
2011
Afterlife
2013
The Body
1982
Riding the Bullet
2000
Mr. Mercedes Trilogie - Mr. Mercedes, De eerlijke vinder, Wisseling van de wacht
2016
Turn Down the Lights
2013
In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Café
1995
Laurie
2018
The Stand
1978
THE DARKNESS
2019
Dark Screams
Volume One
2014
The Drawing of the Three
1987
Autopsy Room Four
2004
The Bachman Books / Thinner
2012
