What type of book makes you keep reading gets you so into the book you can't put it down. Well if it’s horror then Stephen King might be the one for you. Stephen King is an author who specializes in writing about horror and science fiction. He is one of the most sold authors of all time with 350 million copies of his books sold and is the most well-known horror author. King has had a fascinating lifetime and career and has had many obstacles in his way including a time when he had real-life horror in his own life. He has done way more than he even thought. Stephen King was born in 1847 in Portland, Maine. King had a mother, a father, and one brother named David. King's father was a veteran of WWII and was a traveling vacuum salesman who left …show more content…
Later his wife found the pages and told him the potential of this book, he listened to her kept on writing, and turned it into a great novel afterward this turned out to be one of the most popular horror book. This saved his whole career because this was King’s firestarter for him and after this he kept on writing more and more books. Before he wrote this he thought it was his, “all time loser”. Carrie was not very popular immediately but soon after it took off.This book became very popular and because of this New American Library bought its paperback rights for $400,000 but King got around $200,000 since the rest was given to his publishers and others. After this, he quit his current job and started working full-time a year later because he realized he could actually make a living doing this. King's mom was dying of cancer so he and his wife decided to move in with her. After her death, King started to have a severe drinking problem out of grief. He even stated that he barely remembers writing Cujo at the time because he was drinking so much. At her house, King wrote his second published novel Salem’s Lot. In 1977 Carrie became a horror film. In 1977 King wrote The Shining, which allowed him to be nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. This same year King and his family all took a trip to England for a projected year but returned after a few months and moved to Center Lovell,