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Stephen King
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Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor, Book Author, Screen Story, Short Story Author Born: September 21, 1947 in Portland, ME Biography:"Stephen King" wrote his first short story at seven, and was first published (in a comic fanzine) at 18. After attending the University of Maine, he worked as a sportswriter for his local newspaper and labored away for a while in an industrial laundry. He was teaching high school English at Maine's Hampden Academy when his first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974. Over the next decade he blossomed into the most popular writer in America, as well as one of the most prolific; in addition to the books published under his own name, he also wrote five pseudonymously as Richard Bachman (one of these, The Running Man, was filmed in 1989, with "Arnold Schwarzenegger" in the lead). No mere hack or dilettante, as has sometimes been alleged, "King" puts his whole heart and soul in every chiller he writes: His criteria is that if it can scare him, it will scare everyone else. Beginning with 1976's "Carrie",... Full Biography
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