Stephen King (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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King began writing in high school and sold two short stories before finishing college. In 1974 he published his first novel, Carrie, about an outcast teenager with telekinetic powers, her religious fanatic mother, and her humiliation at the hands of fellow teens. Over the next twenty years, King published twenty- five novels under his own name, eight collections of short stories, five novels under the pen name Richard Bachman, and three works of nonfiction. Almost all of King’s books involve supernatural forces and violent action; many have been...

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