King, Stephen
King, Stephen( 1947– ),born in Maine and educated at its state university, early became and has long continued to be a very popular novelist of science fiction and horror stories, including Carrie (1973), The Stand (1978), The Dead Zone (1979), Pet Sematary (1983), and The Dark Half (1989). King is ultra prolific, publishing a book a year, nearly all bestsellers, the most recent of which include Bag of Bones (1998), The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999), Hearts in Atlantis (1999), Dreamcatcher (2001), From a Buick 8 (2002), and several new volumes in his popular Dark Tower series. In 2003 he was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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