Stephen King
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Born 1947-09-21
Portland, Maine, USA
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. He is widely known for his horror novels and has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has also explored other genres: suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.
His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror. Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone and Christine (both 1983), Stand by Me(1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and It (2017).
He has also published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000).
Among other awards, he has won the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller for 11/22/63 (2011). He has also won honours for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities."
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The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Baseball
The Daily Show
Jeopardy!
The Shawshank Redemption
Frasier
The X-Files
Sons of Anarchy
Markus Lanz
The View
The Green Mile
The Running Man
IT: Welcome to Derry
The Shining
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Haven
The Long Walk
The Outer Limits
Mr. Mercedes
Omnibus
Under the Dome
The Institute
Tales from the Darkside
The Dead Zone
The Twilight Zone
Morgenmagazin
The Monkey
It Chapter Two
The Mist
Stand by Me
Castle Rock
It
It
Epic Rap Battles of History
11.22.63
The Outsider
Monsters
The Dark Tower
The Stand
The Running Man
Misery
Doctor Sleep
The Stand
Finding Your Roots
Carrie
The Mist
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Salem's Lot
The Boogeyman
Today
The Life of Chuck
Pet Sematary
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Carrie
Secret Window
Christine
Eli Roth's History of Horror
The Dead Zone
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