Stephen King

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Stephen King

• Horror Legend

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Childhood

• Stephen did not have an easy childhood.
• When he was just a child, his father abandoned
  King, his brother, David, and his mother, Nellie
  Ruth Pillsbury King.
• Young Stephens family was constantly moving
  because of it.
• Later on, when he was in elementary school, King
  was overweight, wore dirty clothes, and was very
  unpopular.
• He loved to write even as a child.

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Young Adulthood

• King s young adulthood was fairly good.
• He was very popular in The university of Maine at
  Orno and was recognized throughout the campus
  partly because of his news paper column.
• Tabitha King married him while in the middle of
  her school year.
• Stephen King graduated with an English degree.

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.Later

• Later things got much worse for Stephen King.
• Many people looking for jobs had an English
  degree like him.
• King often wrote short stories that were hardly
  ever excepted.
• He also taught an English course.
• Stephen King had to support his family with his
  lack of writing jobs and income.
• Sometimes he drank too much.
• Eventually, things started to look up.
• He wrote Carrie and would be receiving a good
  amount of money.
• From then on King only wrote and became an
  exceptional horror writer.

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Now

• Now Stephen King is known throughout the horror
  world.
• He has stopped writing ever since the car
  accident.
• The former writer has written over 40 novels
  which more than half of have been turned in to
  movies.
• He lives with his with wife in Bangor, Maine in a
  large mansion and has three kids.
• Although King has a lot of money, he does not
  live an overly extravagant life.

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King Books I Recommend

• The Dark Tower series
• The Long Walk
• The Shining
• From A Buick 8
• Everythings Eventual
• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan

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Interesting Facts

• King wrote under the fake name Richard Bachman
  and the books Bachman wrote did well proving King
  is not just popular for his name.Richard Bachman
  was eventually revealed.
• Stephen was in a rock band with many famous
  people like Steve Barry called the RockBottom
  Remainders.
• King likes animals and motorcycles.
• He got hit by a car while going on one of his
  morning walks.
• King owns three radio stations in his homeland
  Maine.
• In Guinness he was said to have the most movie
  adaptations of books of any living author.
• His books have been published in 33 languages and
  in 35 countries. More than 300 million of his
  novels are in publication.

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The first book in the Dark Tower series
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King likes animals, baseball, and motorcycles.
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Movie adaptations
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Personal favorites
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Kings Mansion
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Thank you
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