The person who inspires me the most of all the people in the world (other than my mum) is Stephen king. He wrote loads and loads of different novels. A lot of which where turned into movies or TV series'. One of my favorite novels is stand by me. this is really inspiring as it makes you think about life and how different people have been treated and how people are bullied into doing what they think is wrong. to follow will be some background information about how stephen king grew up and how he was treated and what his life was like.
stephen king was born on 21st september 1947 he was born maine general hospital in portland. he was the natural born child in the family his older brother had been adopted at birth. stephen started his writing career in 1959. he started offworking with his brother to produce a local paper called "daves rags" (dave being his older brother.) stephen went to lisbon highschool in maine. here he and a freind got together to start writing books he and his freind chris published 18 short stories, some of which were : "people, place and things -- volume 1" they also published "hotel at the end of the road." these are just 2 of the 18 they published.
stephen made his first actual published appearance in 1965 in the magazine Comics Review with "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber."
In January 1973 stephen submitted "Carrie" to Doubleday. In March Doubleday bought the book. On May 12 the publisher sold the paperback rights for the novel to New American Library for $400,000. stephen's contract called for him getting half of that sum, and he quit his teaching job to pursue writing full time.
Since then, King has had numerous short stories and novels published and movies made from his work. He has been called the "Master of Horror".
stephen king was born on 21st september 1947 he was born maine general hospital in portland. he was the natural born child in the family his older brother had been adopted at birth. stephen started his writing career in 1959. he started offworking with his brother to produce a local paper called "daves rags" (dave being his older brother.) stephen went to lisbon highschool in maine. here he and a freind got together to start writing books he and his freind chris published 18 short stories, some of which were : "people, place and things -- volume 1" they also published "hotel at the end of the road." these are just 2 of the 18 they published.
stephen made his first actual published appearance in 1965 in the magazine Comics Review with "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber."
In January 1973 stephen submitted "Carrie" to Doubleday. In March Doubleday bought the book. On May 12 the publisher sold the paperback rights for the novel to New American Library for $400,000. stephen's contract called for him getting half of that sum, and he quit his teaching job to pursue writing full time.
Since then, King has had numerous short stories and novels published and movies made from his work. He has been called the "Master of Horror".
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