Stephen King

The Beginnings

Stephen King made his first ever professional short story sale titled The Glass Floor to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. As the years went on he would continue to sell stories to men's magazines and many of these stories were later put into the Night Shift collection. In the fall of 1971, King began teaching at a high school called Hampden Academy, more specifically teaching English classes and while doing this he still continued to create short stories.

In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted his novel of Carrie for publication and later on in that year on Mother's day he would find out from his editor, Bill Thompson, that his novel was to become a major paperback sale that would allow him to leave his job as a teacher at the high school he was working at. At the end of this year, King and his family moved to the southern part of Maine where he wrote his next published novel Salem's Lot.

In 1974, Carrie was published which was around the same time that him and his family moved to Boulder, Colorado where they lived for a little less than a year, where he wrote another famous work The Shining. After they moved back to Maine from Boulder in the summer of 1975 King wrote another famous work known as The Stand and another known as Dead Zone.

King after putting out his work into society was able to have film adaptations created from his books in which he made a few appearances, such as in Rose Red, Pet Sematary, Creepshow, Sleepwalkers, etc. He also, in 2003, was the recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.