The Literal Interpretation Of Stephen King's Life

Stephen King Stephen King once said, “A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we are children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they are scars of ugliness or scars of beauty, it is pretty much in the eye of the beholder.” Stephen King is an American horror writer born in Maine in 1947 to a low income family. He would write constantly from a young age until he finally hit his big break in 1973. Using his upbringing, love for writing, and real life influences Stephen King became one of the most famous authors of all time. On September, 21, 1973 Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine to Donald King and Nellie Ruth. Donald abandoned the family when Stephen was two years old. Consequently, Stephens mother often held two to three jobs at a time so the family could scrape by, a work ethic that was instilled in Stephen at a young age. He would write reviews of short stories and television shows to put in his brother’s community newspaper. When he turned Eleven the family moved to
Now that he could afford to leave Maine, King moved his family to Boulder, Colorado, where they had a stay in the Stanley Hotel. That stay plus the stress of being a new father and struggling would inspire him to write perhaps his most famous work, The Shining. After he finished the Shining he would move back to Maine living near a dangerous road, and after a close accident with his daughter on the road he had the idea for the novel Pet Cemetery. As he grew as an author his work became more of an outlet about his real life. The novel Misery is about an author captured by a psycho fan that forces him to write for her, while The Dark Half is about an author that had headaches as a child and that comes back to affect him. His popularity continued to boom and now King has sold over 350 million copies and has over 30