King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine, when a driver, who was distracted by an unrestrained dog, struck him from behind. His daughter is a Unitarian Universalism Church minister with her same sex partner.Ī life altering happening beset King in June of 1999.

The first novel written after he quit all dependent drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, has published nine of her own novels along with both sons being published writers. His health during that period was so bad that he barely remembered writing the novel, Cujo.

His most notable literary award was in 2007 for the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.King has had the common human weaknesses including alcoholism and drug addiction. He has won about every possible literary award beginning with his 1980 novella, The Way Station. Many of his stories take place in his home state of Maine. He has published 54 novels using a pen name (Richard Bachman) for a few of them. Many have been made into films, television movies, and comics. His novels have sold more than 350 million copies. King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He married his present wife, Tabitha, in 1971, and they have three children. He attended the University of Maine, where he received a B.A. Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in the city of Portland, Maine. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Thus the audiobook opens, like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King's imagination. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where 'walk-ins' have been often seen. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room - really a chamber of horrors - in Thunderclap's Fedic Station Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and 61st with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best. The tale of Ronald Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. Constant Listener, and not even Stephen King can write a story that goes on forever. Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris ElbaAll good things must come to end.

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