Stephen King
The author I chose to write about is Stephen King. His most famous novel, written in 1974, is Carrie. King’s is in the horror genre. He has written fifty-two novels, and he has sold 350 million books. When king was eleven years old, he and his family moved to Durham, Maine, in 1958. While in Durham, ling found that, although his father was not present, they enjoy the same hobby. At his aunt’s house, king found some of his father’s horror books, as well as, some of the horror stories his father had written. Stephen King has been very successful in his career, and he is one of the best horror writers of all time.
On September 21, 1974, in Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine, king was born. King was very
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Simpson, in his article “Stephen King’s Critical Reception.” Stephen King published hundreds of novels, novellas, novelettes, poems, and short stories since 1973 with the horror thriller Carrie. Many of king’s critics thought he was a bad writer they were shock to find out he had won a very important award which was the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letter. Harold Bloom, was a professor at Yale University became angry when king won many awards. He stated, “extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. what he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence -by- sentence, paragraph -by- paragraph, book -by- book basis.” Many of king’s critics considered his horror genre not credible and they don’t consider him to be a literary writer, ironically, king did not help himself when he describe his work, “literary equivalent of a big mac and fries.” Don Herron, one of King’s critics states that criticism come from “fantasy horror” fans and not “major mainstreams critics and working professors.” Regarding King’s work, Herron say he has “never read fiction as a ready made for critical explication as King’s. He has taught English at both high school and College levels, and he loads his work with themes, recurring motifs,