Stephen King Accomplishments

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The well-known American Horror Novelist, Stephen King, has written many novels and short stories over the last six decades. He has sold over three hundred million copies of his novels and countless movies have been made from them. Today, King is one of the most popular science-fiction writers known and continues to write daily. He has made millions of dollars for his suspenseful, gruesome, and twisted work. In doing so, this has opened additional doors for King. He has also written several nonfiction books, autobiographies, and even children’s books. King has won numerous awards and has been nominated for several more dating back to the late nineteen seventies. He has been interviewed multiple times by college students, fans, and other writers.…show more content…
King fell sick in first grade and missed a lot of school. He laid in bed, for days, reading comic books and various other tales. He indicated, “At some point I began to write my own stories. Imagination preceded creation.” (King, On Writing; A Memoir Of The Craft 27). King always had a book in his hand wherever he went. H.P. Lovecraft, author of horror and dark fiction, was one of King’s most idealized authors and is the most influential in his writing. Much of his material for his own writing came from books he has read. He will put his own twist on the book and turn it into a totally different story. For instance, the book, “The Dillinger Days by John Toland, King decided to piggy back off of his book and create a new one called “The Death of Jack Hamilton.” (King, Stephen King, The Art of Fiction NO.189). As time passed, King began writing more and more. His brother Dave, also interested in writing, made his own newspaper that he sold around town for extra money. King also wrote stories in Dave’s newspaper, but he wasn’t much interested in writing these kinds of stories. King was interested in movies too. He loved to critique the movies he watched and add new endings to improve them. He also used films, he has seen, to recreate stories for his own novels. For instance, “In Wolves of the Calla, one of the seven books in the Dark Tower series, I decided to see if I couldn’t…show more content…
King worked at numerous places and met several new people. King uses many of the places he has seen as the settings for his books. He made up a fictional town that resembles a small town that his mother had moved him and his brother to when they were young. The town had a wooded area, train tracks, and a junkyard nearby, were the boys wandered off to from time to time to play. “This is one of the places I keep returning to in my imagination; it turns up in my books and stories again and again, under a variety of names.” (King, On Writing; A Memoir Of The Craft 30). A few of these novels include: The Body (1982), The Tommyknockers (1987), Bag of Bones (1998), and Lisey's Story (2006). Sometimes, its stories that people have told King that stick out in his mind. For instance, when he worked in the mill, a man told him a story about huge “rats that were as big as a dog” (King, On Writing; A Memoir Of The Craft 60-61). He ended up writing, the short story, The Graveyard Shift. This story was about a queen rat that devoured humans. One year, King and his family wanted to get away for a bit, so they stayed in the Stanly Hotel. Upon entering the hotel, King felt something mysterious about that this creepy hotel and it has been the setting for several of his books including, “The Shining”. Living in Maine with his wife and children, King owned a motor cycle and it was not running right. . He
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