Stephen King : A Biography
by Rolls, AlbertFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-12-30
Publisher(s): Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary
Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth, far from glittering publishing and film centers, yet few American writers can now equal his hold on audiences worldwide. This biography traces King's evolution from would-be pulp magazine writer to master of his craft, whose work both epitomizes and transcends the horror genre. Primary source bibliography of Stephen King's novels, fiction collections, and nonfiction, including his work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman Exhaustive A-to-Z bibliography of books and articles about King and his work, including online resources and a list of Web sites devoted to King Photographs of King at different stages of his career
Table of Contents
| Series Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Timeline: Events in the Life of Stephen King | p. xiii |
| Taking Up the Pen | p. 1 |
| Becoming a Writer | p. 9 |
| Finding a Publisher | p. 17 |
| Beginning to Establish the Name Stephen King | p. 23 |
| Becoming the King | p. 29 |
| Responding to Fame and Fortune | p. 37 |
| Settling into His Position | p. 45 |
| Negotiating His Private and Public Lives | p. 53 |
| Something Different | p. 61 |
| King's Status Rises | p. 69 |
| The Sense of an Ending | p. 79 |
| Letting People Recover | p. 87 |
| Taking a Stand | p. 95 |
| King's Feminist Sensibility | p. 105 |
| The King Machine Rolls On | p. 113 |
| Breaking New Records | p. 121 |
| New Retirement Rumors Almost Become Real | p. 129 |
| The Long Recovery | p. 137 |
| Retiring, Again | p. 145 |
| His Busy Retirement Continues | p. 155 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 163 |
| Index | p. 179 |
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