Stephen King
1947-
Other Works
The Shining
The Stand
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
One-Man Entertainment Industry Stephen King, a former English teacher, nearly threw away his writing career before it began. He originally dumped his manuscript for Carrie into the trash, but his wife retrieved it and urged him to continue working on it. Later, after Carrie became a hit movie, King went on to become a best-selling author and the first writer to have five titles on the New York Times' bestseller lists at the same time. Credited with reviving the market for both horror fiction and horror films, King has been called a "one-man entertainment industry."
A Devoted Writer Born in Portland, Maine, King began writing as a child and published his first story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber," in Comics Review when he was 18. A prolific and compulsive writer, King works every day except the Fourth of July, his birthday, and Christmas. Devoting his mornings to writing and his afternoons to rewriting, he produces six pages daily.
From Brain to Screen King has written that the idea for Sorry, Right Number came to him "one night on my way home from buying a pair of shoes." He wrote the script in two sittings and about a week later submitted it to a friend who had a TV series called Tales from the Darkside. The friend bought the teleplay the day he read it, had it in production a week or two later, and a month after that telecast it—"one of the fastest turns from in-the-head to on-
the-screen that I've ever heard of," King commented.
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