King thought that he would not write again, but did resume writing with this caveat, "I'm writing, but I'm writing at a slower pace". His lawyer purchased the van that hit him to prevent it from being sold on eBay. His severe injuries kept him in the hospital until July 9. King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine, when a driver, who was distracted by an unrestrained dog, struck him from behind. His daughter is a Unitarian Universalism Church minister with her same sex partner.Ī life altering happening beset King in June of 1999. The first novel written after he quit all dependent drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, has published nine of her own novels along with both sons being published writers. His health during that period was so bad that he barely remembered writing the novel, Cujo. His most notable literary award was in 2007 for the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.King has had the common human weaknesses including alcoholism and drug addiction. He has won about every possible literary award beginning with his 1980 novella, The Way Station. Many of his stories take place in his home state of Maine. He has published 54 novels using a pen name (Richard Bachman) for a few of them. Many have been made into films, television movies, and comics. His novels have sold more than 350 million copies. King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He married his present wife, Tabitha, in 1971, and they have three children. He attended the University of Maine, where he received a B.A. Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in the city of Portland, Maine. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption-from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption.
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