The Glass Floor: An Analysis Of Stephen King's Work

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Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947. King was born and grew up in Portland, Maine. King's parents are Donald and Nellie Ruth King. He had one brother. King graduated at Lisbon Falls High school in 1966. He attended college at the university of Maine. Stephen finished college with a degree for english in 1970.

Then latter applied for his first job as a teacher, although it did not work out. He then obtained a job again as a teacher at the Hampton Academy, earning just 6,400 dollars a year. He then went on to marry his wife Tabitha Spruce.Together they had three children, Naomi Rachel, Joseph Hillstrom who is also a writer, and Owen Phillip.

Stephen King's first ever work was called The Glass Floor which he wrote in 1967.
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