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Stephen King
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Stephen King is an American author widely known as the "King of Horror", writing horror and other genres across a six-decade career.
Biography
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author widely known as the "King of Horror." He is best known for horror fiction but has written in suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. In a career spanning six decades he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections. His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror, and Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, represented his first major departure from the genre.
Many of King’s works have been adapted for film, including Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), Stand by Me (1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), It (2017), The Life of Chuck (2024) and The Long Walk (2025). He has published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and co-written with Peter Straub and his sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000), and has received awards and honors for his work, including the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for 11/22/63 (2011), the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award, and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates called him "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer".
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Books by Stephen King
Later
Later follows Jamie Conklin, the son of a struggling single mother who was born with an ability to see and learn what others cannot, a secret his mother urges him to keep. When an NYPD detective draws Jamie into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave, he discovers the high cost of using his ability.