Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror,
suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. Here are some interesting and
fun facts about him.
He’s a hardcore Red Sox fan.
S. King
is a fan of AC/DC and The Ramones.
Before
becoming a writer, he worked as a dry cleaner and high school teacher.
Stephen King's
first best-selling novel was “Carrie”.
His
books are classed as horror, fantasy and science-fiction.
S. King is an
avid “Lost” fan and sometimes
writes about it in his Entertainment
Weekly column “The Pop of King.”
King's
sons, Joe Hill and Owen King, are also published authors.
Even the famous become involved with
alcohol or drugs. He had a cocaine
addiction and with the help of his wife Tabitha and other friends and family,
he did sober up.
King and his wife, Tabitha, own “The Zone Corporation,” a company that serves to head their
three radio stations in Maine.
He
reportedly bought the van that hit him and planned to hammer it to pieces when
the anniversary of the accident came around.
When
he was a child, he witnessed his friend die in a train accident. He had no
memory of the event.
On
June 19, 1999, King was struck by a
minivan on the shoulder of Route 5 in Lovell, Maine. The driver had got
distracted by his dog, and King
landed in a depression 14 feet from the pavement. He suffered from a collapsed
lung, multiple fractures in his right leg, scalp laceration, and a broken hip.
Stephen King plays
rhythm guitar for a band made up of writers.
He wrote a musical with John Mellencamp.
King
has written several works under the name Richard Bachman, a pseudonym created
to enable him to publish and sell more than one book a year, which was once
widely thought to be the maximum production for an author.
His
primary occupation is a novelist, but he has also produced shows for
television, and other such media.
His
The Dark Tower series has been
described as a successful fantasy that bridges with the spaghetti western.
Popular
books by Stephen King:
S. King’s
books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a
number of feature films, television movies and comic books.