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Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, United States. On September 21, 1947. Son of separated parents, he spent his childhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with his father's family.

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Stephen was just two years old when he was abandoned by his father, being raised only by his mother and adopted older brother. His childhood was marked by a series of financial difficulties and moving house in different North American cities. There are those who say that what inspired his dark side and disturbing creations was an accident he witnessed when he was young, in which one of his friends was trapped on a railway and run over by a train. The author himself denies that this was the beginning of his macabre inspirations.

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He finished high school at Lisboa Falls High Scholl

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Degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono.

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In 1971, Stephen King began teaching English at Hampden Academy. That same year he married Tabitha Spruce, also a writer, his university friend.

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In 1973, his novel “Carrie” was accepted by a publisher and published in 1974. With the great success of the work, King stopped teaching and started writing full time.

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A Hora do Vampiro

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O Iluminado

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It, a coisa

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He has published 59 novels, 7 of which under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

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King is honored with the Edgar Allan Poe Legacy Award, an award given by the Mystery Writers of America, in recognition of his influence on the mystery literary genre.

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Many of King's stories are semi-autobiographical, meaning they are drawn in part from some of his own experiences. Many of the places he writes about are based on the places he grew up in when he lived in Maine and elsewhere.