In 1977, the Kings spent three months of a projected year-long stay in England, cut the sojourn short and returned home in mid-December, purchasing a new home in Center Lovell, Maine. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton. At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. That same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. During this period, Stephen's mother died of cancer, at the age of 59.Ĭarrie was published in the spring of 1974. Renting a summer home on Sebago Lake in North Windham for the winter, Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before it became 'Salem's Lot, in a small room in the garage. On Mother's Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time.Īt the end of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved their growing family to southern Maine because of Stephen's mother's failing health. accepted the novel Carrie for publication. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines.
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Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines. He met Tabitha in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students. He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of the elderly couple. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King.
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