Stephen King Accomplishments

Stephen Edwin King is the perfect example of a modernist writer. He represents his genre of horror concisely, and each piece of his literary work exemplifies these traits. He is able to invoke fear from the deepest places with his novels, or the movies/ cameos they inspire. The great Pet Sematary, The Shining, Carrie, and others have this compelling quality to our inner evil. These all began with the mind of little Stephen King, born and raised in Portland Maine in what was considered to be a broken home. It all began when Stephen and his brother David were abandoned by their father at a very young age. He originally spent his childhood in Fort Wayne Indiana and Stratford Connecticut, and when he was eleven his mother brought him to his birthplace

He attended the University of Maine at Orono. He wrote a weekly column for the school’s newspaper, “The Maine Campus.” King was active in politics, and served in the Student Senate. He discovered his voice at a Anti War Movement at Orono. He was a conservative and believed the war in Vietnam was pointless and unconstitutional. He graduated from the university in 1970. He received a B.A. in English and the qualifications to teach high school english. King married his wife Tabitha Spruce in 1971, they met at the university’s library. Unable to obtain a teaching position he began industrial work, and wrote for a men magazine. His first official sale was, “The Glass Floor.” While he was in his early years of marriage he continued selling his work to

It was published on November 14th 1983. Stephen considers it to be one of his darkest novels. The novel takes place in Maine, where Stephen spent most of his time from childhood to adulthood. It is about a doctor who moves to a new home to discover that there is a cemetery where the dead can rise, so he buries his son when he passes away. The child who comes back isn’t his son but a demented version. He has to find a way to stop his son before he murders the whole town .The movie that was later adapted to fit the novel proves it is a very dark sequence of