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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror". [2] He has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy and mystery. [3]
King was born in 1977 in Maine to parents Tabitha and Stephen King. [1] [2] [3] He has two older siblings, Naomi King and Joseph Hillström King. He was raised in Bangor, Maine, showing an interest in writing during high school. [4] King attended Vassar College and Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. [5]
Conflict was curtailed, however, by the power of the King's personality and reputation. [30] Meanwhile, the King arranged for Stephen to marry in 1125 to Matilda, the daughter and only heiress of Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, who owned both the important continental port of Boulogne and vast estates in the north-west and south-east of England ...
In 1937, Phil Parker, a recent graduate from Harvard Law School, stays at his parents' summer home in the small town of Curry, New Hampshire, where he contemplates whether to work at a white-shoe law firm in Boston (where both his father and his fiancé Sally Ann's father are senior partners, but where Phil believes he will be unhappy) or instead to establish his own practice in Curry, which ...
Mr. Mercedes is a crime novel by American writer Stephen King.He calls it his first hard-boiled detective book. It was published on June 3, 2014. [1] It is the first volume in a trilogy, followed in 2015 by Finders Keepers, the first draft of which was finished around the time Mr. Mercedes was published, [2] [3] and End of Watch in 2016.
The Institute is a 2019 American science fiction-horror novel by Stephen King, published by Scribner. [2] The book follows twelve-year-old genius Luke Ellis. When his parents are murdered, he is kidnapped by intruders and awakens in the Institute, a facility that houses other abducted children who have telepathy or telekinesis.
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King said he wanted to depict Dan as avoiding being like his parents and trying to escape his roots. [9] In the film adaptation, Dan seemingly sacrifices his own life to save Abra by destroying the Overlook, depicted as condemned but still standing; this is a nod to the ending of King's novel The Shining. [10]