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 Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the younger of two sons. Apart from being raised without a father from the age of three, Stephen experienced a normal childhood. He enjoyed playing for his high school football team and was an enthusiastic member of a small rock band.
After graduating high school in 1966, King attended the University of Maine, where he studied English. While in college, Stephen wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper and served as a member of the student senate. He supported the anti-war movement on campus, reasoning that the Vietnam War was unconstitutional. After earning his B.S. in English in 1970, King was drafted by the U.S. military, but excused for having flat feet and poor vision.
In January of 1971, Stephen married Tabitha Spruce before heading off to teach English at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted King's novel, Carrie, for publication. Carrie, was finally published in early 1974, eventually selling four million copies. The astonishly successful novel was made into a film in 1976.
Since then, Stephen King has written numerous novels and short stories, taking few breaks inbetween. His tales have been made into more than thirty feature length films, most of which have been relatively successful. Stephen King frequently plays his guitar in a band called The Rockbottom Remainders with Dave Barry and Matt Groening (The Simpsons). The happily married father of three currently resides in Maine.
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