A man starting from nothing with only the urge to write becoming so much more. The King of Horror is a member of many guilds, writer of some of the best horror novels, and has even made a couple movies. Although, with a current net worth of 400 million dollars, Stephen King was not always the King of Horror. Having been born on September 21, 1947, his childhood was not the greatest. HIs father, Donald King, was not always a king. He was a Pollock before changing his surname to King. In 1939 on July 23, Donald King and Nellie Ruth née Pillsbury were married in Cumberland County, Maine. Their marriage did not last long, for ten years later, in 1949, Donald went out to "buy a pack of cigarettes" (Wikipedia 2) leaving Nellie to raise David and …show more content…
Richard Bachman was created There was a novel by Richard Stark on my desk so I used the name Richard and that's kind of funny because Richard Stark is in itself a pen name for Donald Westlake and what was playing on the record player was "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by Bachman Turner Overdrive, so I put the two of them together and came up with Richard Bachman. (2) The reason Stephen King used a pen name to publish a few of his books because then it was thought that readers would not be able to accept it. However, the number of authors publishing a few books has disproved that. Stephen King and his literary agent, Richard Manuel, created Bachman’s persona. In Fact, Richard Manuel was the image for Richard Bachman. They continue to use Bachman today as a kind of joke. In 1985, Stephen revealed that Bachman died suddenly of “cancer of the pseudonym, a rare form of schizomania” (Wikipedia 12). After that, Stephen still use the name to publish The Dark Half, The Regulators with publishers claiming the books manuscript was found by his widow. Blaze was discovered next as it was an unpublished novel of Kings before
I consider Pike to be an important author to literature because he gives his horror/thriller books a different perspective. Like many other horror/thriller books everything starts out perfect for the characters until one day it turns into a mystery filled with unanswered questions and most likely death. In Pike’s books, he provides details and makes the reader question all of the moves the characters make and sends the reader on a journey throughout the
King, who has explored almost every terror-producing theme imaginable, from vampires, rabid dogs, deranged killers, pyromaniac ghosts, to telekinesis, biological warfare and even a malevolent automobile was known for his horror stories, and strange deaths.
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 at the Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine. His parents were Donald Edwin King and Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen being the only natural born child in the family and his older brother David having been adopted at birth two years earlier. “The Kings were the typical, “nuclear” family of the fifties until one night when Donald King said he was stepping out for cigarettes and was never heard from again.” At this point Ruth took over raising the family with help from other relatives of the family.
Jan. 15, 1929 - Dr. King is born - Born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Ga., he was the second of three children of the Rev. Michael (later Martin) and Alberta Williams King.
In 1980, King moved to Canada with his nine-year old son and lived in Alberta for about ten years. He returned briefly to the United States in 1986 to receive his PhD in English Literature at the University of Utah, but is now a Canadian citizen and resides in Guelph, Ontario.
Even one of the best and most well known authors has written books under pen names, and that is Steven King. Steven King has written various books under the name Richard Bachman. As stated in “Who Is Richard Bachman?” King embraced the Bachman pseudonym because it allowed him to analyze his own success in his writing career: was he successful because of his talent or successful because of luck? King also has a complete backstory to his character. “Bachman” has a wife, he used to be on the coast guard, and works on a dairy farm. In 1985, King had been revealed as being Richard Bachman. Stated in the article “Who Is Richard Bachman?” a Washington D.C. bookstore owner noticed that the writing styles of the two authors seemed similar. And even though he was revealed as being Richard Bachman, Steven King still used the pen
Many people have heard of Mark Twain, but his real name is Samuel L. Clemens. He is one of the most influential authors in writing, and he is the guy with the white suit and a cigar (Brown, Don). His career has inspired many to become authors, but he faced many challenges in his older years, which affected his ideal of becoming wealthy. Nevertheless, he has had an impact on American Literature, securing him a spot in the History Hall of Fame.
King Sr’s. wife, Alberta Williams, worked as a teacher, but soon after marriage decided to put teaching behind her and move on to become fully dedicated to the Baptist church. She also took responsibility to support the Women’s International League for Peace...
and his father, Donald King. Today, Stephen King and his wife, Tabitha King, are living
Stephen King is known as one of the greatest horror and gothic writers of our time. The reason for this is his ability to fuse the gothic elements created by stories such as Dracula or Frankenstein and todays horror. King has written hundreds of short stories but two in-particular “The Night Flier” and “Popsy” show his unique ability to combined gothic elements from the old literature with realistic settings and people of our era. One of his greater talents is being able to use gothic element like vampires and make us see them in a different light. Kings unique way of writing with his old gothic ideals, new horror ideas, and use of realistic settings help to put a new spin on what we conceive as gothic story.
Stephen King is known by many as a successful author, but every author is only as good as his or her works. King has produced various types of works such as short stories, novels, novellas, screenplays, and comics. His work has been the “most important bridge between the horror genre and literary respectability from the late 1960s and 1970s up to the present time” (Hoppenstand 3). Stephen Edwin King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. He is the second son of Donald Edwin and Nellie Ruth King. When King was two years old, his father, a captain in the merchant marines, went out to buy a pack of cigarettes and never returned. Nellie, King’s mother, raised King and his adopted older brother David. The family under the care of Nellie experienced many hardships and moved often as she looked for work. The family lived in Maine, Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. When King was six years old, the family finally settled in Stratford, Connecticut (Hoppenstand 8; Stephen King).
As private as Wheeler was a person, you can only speculate as to why he wrote over 40 books under three different pseudonyms. His seemingly quiet private life may have been vicariously lived through the lives of the many characters he created in his mystery novels. The series of Puzzle novels were his most popular and were written under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin and collaborated with Richard Webb (Obituar...
Michael King Sr. came to Atlanta in 1918. He had known the hard life of a sharecropper in a poor farming country. His father, James Albert King (1864 — 1933), was irreligious, became an alcoholic, and beat his wife, Delia Linsey King (1873 — 1924). In the fall of 1926, Michael Sr. married Alberta Williams after a courtship of some eight years. The newlyweds moved into A. D. Williams's home.
For such a successful writer, Stephen King really had no secret to his writing style. King has credited free writing for his best ideas. He also has a very down to earth way of looking at his fame. Stephen King would read for four hours, and then he would write for four hours or until he reached 2,000 words. In a Time magazine interview, King called this his nine to five approach and that he, “worked until beer o’ clock.” When asked where his ideas came from, King would often reply, “I have the heart of a small boy. . . And I keep it in a jar on my desk.” Also, he does not have just one particular way of writing horror, and what often sets off the terror in his readers most was the vast amount of detail portrayed.
Martin Luther King Jr was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia (McGill). He married Coretta Scott King June 18, 1953 and had 4 children (About Dr. King) His first name was originally supposed to be “Michael King Jr” but his father Martin Luther King Sr. changed it (20 Interesting Dr. Martin Luther King Facts). He was very smart, he skipped grades 9 and 11 and graduated