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VJ Books Presents Stephen King!
 Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes 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.
He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students.
In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 40 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers.
Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974 and that same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton. In 1977, the Kings spent three months of a projected year-long stay in England, cut the sojourn short and returned home in mid-December, purchasing a new home in Center Lovell, Maine. After living there one summer, the Kings moved north to Orrington, near Bangor, so that Stephen could teach creative writing at the University of Maine at Orono. The Kings returned to Center Lovell in the spring of 1979.
In 1980, the Kings purchased a second home in Bangor, retaining the Center Lovell house as a summer home. Stephen and Tabitha provide scholarships for local high school students and contribute to many other local and national charities. Stephen is the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Stephen and Tabitha now spend winters in Florida and the remainder of the year at their Bangor and Center Lovell homes. The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, and four grandchildren.
Talisman / Black Hole
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T 11/22/63
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Duma Key
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Just After Sunset
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Hearts in Atlantis
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The Regulators
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To see Stephen King's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.
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Stephen King Bibliography
The Dark Tower Series
1. The Gunslinger (1982)
2. The Drawing of the Three (1985)
3. The Waste Lands (1991)
4. Wizard and Glass (1997)
5. Wolves of the Calla (2003)
6. Song of Susannah (2004)
7. The Dark Tower (2004)
8. Everything's Eventual (2002)
9. Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
Talisman (with Peter Straub)
1. The Talisman (1984)
2. Black House (2001)
3. The Talisman and Black House (omnibus) (2003) 4. The Talisman and Black House (Collector's Edition Signed by Peter Straub) (2012)
The Green Mile
1. The Two Dead Girls (1996)
2. The Mouse on the Mile (1996)
3. Coffey's Hands (1996)
4. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix (1996)
5. Night Journey (1996)
6. Coffey on the Mile (1996)
Other Novels
The Star Invaders (1964)
Carrie (1974)
Salem's Lot (1975)
The Shining (1977)
The Stand (1978)
The Dead Zone (1979)
Firestarter (1980)
Cujo (1981)
The Mist (1981)
Pet Sematary (1982)
Christine (1983)
Cycle of the Werewolf (1984)
It (1986)
The Eyes of the Dragon (1986)
The Tommyknockers (1987)
Misery (1987)
The Dark Half (1989)
The Stand, the Complete and Uncut Edition (1990)
Needful Things (1991)
Dolores Claiborne (1992)
Gerald's Game (1992)
Insomnia (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script (1994) (with Frank Darabont)
Rose Madder (1995)
Desperation (1996)
The Green Mile (1996)
Bag of Bones (1998)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
Dreamcatcher (2001)
From a Buick 8 (2002)
The Colorado Kid (2005)
Cell (2006)
Lisey's Story (2006)
Duma Key (2008)
Under the Dome (2009)
11/22/63 (2011)
Omnibus
Selected Works (1983)
Carrie / the Tommyknockers (1994)
Desperation / Regulators (1997) (writing as Richard Bachman)
Stephen King Omnibus (1997)
Collections
People, Places, and Things (1963) (with Chris Chesley)
Night Shift (1978)
Different Seasons (1982)
Skeleton Crew (1985)
Four Past Midnight (1990)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993)
Gray Matter: And Other Stories (1993)
Six Stories (1997)
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
Blood and Smoke (audio) (1999)
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction On The Craft Of Writing (2000)
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002)
The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales (2002)
The Secretary of Dreams (2006)
Just After Sunset (2008)
Stephen King Goes To The Movies (2009)
Road Rage (2009) (with Joe Hill and Richard Matheson)
Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
Chapbooks
Silver Bullet (1985)
My Pretty Pony (1989)
The Library Policeman (1991)
Lawnmower Man (1992)
Umney's Last Case (1995)
Apt Pupil (1998)
Quitter's Inc. (1999)
LT's Theory of Pets (2001)
Plays
Storm of the Century (1999)
Graphic Novels
American Vampire Vol. 1 (2010) (with Rafael Albuquerque and Scott Snyder)
The Talisman: Vol. 1: The Road of Trials (2010) (with Peter Straub)
Novellas
The Breathing Method (1984)
The Langoliers (1990)
Secret Window, Secret Garden (1991)
Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog (1993)
The Body (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Two Past Midnight: Secret Window (1994)
Riding the Bullet (2001)
Secret Window (2004)
Stationary Bike (2006)
The Gingerbread Girl (2008)
Blockade Billy (2010)
Ur (2010)
Series Contributed To
Transgressions (with Lawrence Block, John Farris) - Terror's Echo (2005)
Best American Short Stories (with Katrina Kenison) - The Best American Short Stories 2007 (2007)
Non-Fiction
Danse Macabre (1980)
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (1988) (with f-stop Fitzgerald)
Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude (1994) (with Dave Barry, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver and Amy Tan)
Stephen King Live (1999)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
The WaveDancer Benefit (2002) (with Pat Conroy, John Grisham and Peter Straub)
Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the 2004 Season (2004) (with Stewart O'Nan)
Building Bridges: Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards (2004)
Anthologies containing stories by Stephen King
Tales of Unknown Horror (1976)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Shadows (1978)
The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978)
More Tales of Unknown Horror (1979)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
The Year's Finest Fantasy Volume 2 (1979)
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1980)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
New Terrors 2 (1980)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981)
Fantasy Annual III (1981)
Fantasy Annual IV (1981)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
Shadows 4 (1981)
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1983)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985)
Horrors (1986)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Dark Visions (1988)
Horror Stories (1988)
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
Prime Evil (1988)
Book of the Dead (1989)
Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories (1990)
Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993)
The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994)
Young Blood (1994)
Dark Love (1995)
Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films (1995)
The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Best of the Best (1997)
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997)
Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (1998)
Legends (1998)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
999 (1999)
A Haunting Collection (1999)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Technohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue (1999)
Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
Short Stories
Cain Rose Up (1968)
Here There Be Tygers (1968)
The Reaper's Image (1969)
Graveyard Shift (1970)
I Am the Doorway (1971)
Battleground (1972)
The Mangler (1972)
The Boogeyman (1973)
Gray Matter (1973)
Trucks (1973)
Night Surf (1974)
Sometimes They Come Back (1974)
The Lawnmower Man (1975)
Salem's Lot (excerpt) (1975)
Strawberry Spring (1975)
I Know What You Need (1976)
The Ledge (1976)
The Cat from Hell (1977)
Children of the Corn (1977)
The Man Who Loved Flowers (1977)
One for the Road (1977)
The Gunslinger (1978)
Jerusalem's Lot (1978)
The Last Rung on the Ladder (1978)
The Night of the Tiger (1978)
Nona (1978)
Quitters, Inc. (1978)
The Woman in the Room (1978)
The Crate (1979)
Big Wheels (1980)
Crouch End (1980)
The Mist (1980)
The Monkey (1980)
The Way Station (1980)
The Wedding Gig (1980)
The Jaunt (1981)
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands (1981)
The Reach (1981) aka Do the Dead Sing?
Apt Pupil (1982)
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (1982)
The Body (1982)
The Breathing Method (1982)
Morning Deliveries (1982)
The Raft (1982)
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1982)
Survivor Type (1982)
Uncle Clayton (1983)
Uncle Otto's Truck (1983)
The Word Processor (1983)
Word Processor of the Gods (1983)
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (1984)
Gramma (1984)
Mrs Todd's Shortcut (1984)
The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson (1984)
Beachworld (1985)
For Owen (1985)
Paranoid: A Chant (1985)
The End of the Whole Mess (1986)
The Fifth Quarter (1986)
Popsy (1987)
Dedication (1988)
The Night Flier (1988)
The Reploids (1988)
Sneakers (1988)
Dolan's Cadillac (1989)
Home Delivery (1989)
The Langoliers (1989)
The Library Policeman (1989)
My Pretty Pony (1989)
Rainy Season (1989)
Secret Window, Secret Garden (1989)
The Sun Dog (1989)
The Moving Finger (1990)
It Grows on You (1991)
Chattery Teeth (1992)
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (1992)
Brooklyn August (1993)
The Doctor's Case (1993)
Head Down (1993)
The House on Maple Street (1993)
Sorry, Right Number (1993)
Suffer the Little Children (1993)
The Ten O'Clock People (1993)
Umney's Last Case (1993)
The Man in The Black Suit (1994)
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe (1995)
Autopsy Room Four (1997)
Blind Willie (1997)
Everything's Eventual (1997)
L.T.'s Theory of Pets (1997)
Lucky Quarter (1997)
The Little Sisters of Eluria (1998)
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French (1998)
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling (1999)
Low Men in Yellow Coats (1999)
Riding the Bullet (1999)
The Road Virus Heads North (1999)
Why We're in Vietnam (1999)
1408 (2000)
In the Deathroom (2000)
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