Postmodern Literature

English Final

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. His parents separated when Stephen was a toddler and he, along with his older brother David, was raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother him back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and she was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. His sophomore year at the University of Maine, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. 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 graduated from the University of Maine in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale, called "The Glass Floor," to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication.

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