Book Review: It's Carrie By Stephen King

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In 1974 a book was published, there have been over 4 million copies of this book sold. This book is even in our school library! Guess what book this is. It’s Carrie by Stephen King! Stephen’s first book in fact was Carrie, but lets get a little more into the author before we get into that.
Stephen King was born 9-21-47 in Portland, Maine. King has black hair that is thick, he has blue eyes and wears glasses. Stephen’s parents are Donald and Nellie Pillsbury King, and they split up when King was very young. King also has one brother who is older than him named David. During the time he was little, Stephen was into scary things from the start and he had always watch and listen to scary stories, which later inspire him to create his own. King then grew up and attended school at the University of Maine in Orono.
While there he met the person who would later become his wife, Tabitha. Also while in college, King wrote up his first short story which was featured in Startling Mystery Stories magazine. He took part in the school government and would write short stories in the school newspaper. After finishing college, he was given a degree in english in 1970. In 1971 of January, King married Tabitha.
King wanted a position as a school english teacher but could not find one, so he took a job in a laundromat. Finally he was able to get a job as an english teacher in a private school. There he started to work on his first book, Carrie. He threw it away due to the thought of rejections from publishers, but his wife dug it out and encouraged him to finish it.
The book was finished in 1974 and became a huge success. Afterwards, King decided to become a full time writer. King created other popular books later on which include `Salems Lot, The ...

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...ing is now 66 years old. Besides producing books, Stephen King has also produced three television series; The Dead Zone, Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital, and his newest one, Under The Dome. Stephen King is currently working on season two of Under The Dome and it will premiere June 30th on CBS.
Stephen King continues to be a popular writer and still comes out with new books. Last year he created Doctor Sleep, which is a sequel to The Shining. Doctor Sleep became very successful as well. New York Times labeled it a bestseller last year in October. His newest books for this year will be Mr. Mercedes and Revival. Mr. Mercedes is said to release June 3rd, 2014 and Revival is said to release November 11th, 2014. A deluxe special edition of Carrie is also said to release some time this summer. A release in an e-book edition of his book Joyland came out this year in April.

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