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Stephen KingAKA Stephen Edwin King

Born: 21-Sep-1947
Birthplace: Portland, ME

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Shining

Father: Donald Edwin King (sailor, walked out)
Mother: Nellie Ruth Pillsbury (d. Feb-1974, uterine cancer)
Brother: David King (older, adopted)
Wife: Tabitha Jane Spruce King (novelist, m. 2-Jan-1971)
Daughter: Naomi Rachel King (Unitarian minister, b. 1972, married her lesbian partner Thandelka)
Son: Joseph Hillstrom (author, pen name Joe Hill, b. 1974)
Son: Owen Phillip King (author, b. 1979)

    High School: Lisbon High School, Lisbon, ME (until 1962)
    High School: (graduated 1966)
    University: BA English, University of Maine at Orono (1970)
    Teacher: Hampden Academy, Hampden, ME (1971-73)

    The Rock Bottom Remainders Guitarist/Vocalist 1992-present
    Endorsement of American Express
    Dean for America
    Gore 2000
    John Kerry for President
    World Fantasy Award 2004 Lifetime Achievement
    Hugo
    Draft Deferment: Vietnam 4-F
    Irish Ancestry
    Scottish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Cocaine, Smoking, Aviophobia

    TELEVISION
    Kingdom Hospital Writer (2004)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
    Maximum Overdrive (25-Jul-1986)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Diary of the Dead (8-Sep-2007) [VOICE]
    Kingdom Hospital (3-Mar-2004)
    The Shining (27-Apr-1997)
    Thinner (25-Oct-1996)
    The Langoliers (14-May-1995)
    Baseball (18-Sep-1994) Himself [VOICE]
    The Stand (1994)
    Sleepwalkers (10-Apr-1992)
    Golden Years (16-Jul-1991)
    Pet Sematary (21-Apr-1989)
    Creepshow 2 (1-May-1987)
    Creepshow (12-Nov-1982)
    Knightriders (10-Apr-1981)

Official Website:
http://www.stephenking.com/

Author of books:
Carrie (1974, novel)
Salem's Lot (1975, novel)
The Shining (1977, novel)
The Stand (1978, novel)
Night Shift (1978, short stories)
The Dead Zone (1979, novel)
Firestarter (1980, novel)
Cujo (1981, novel)
Christine (1983, novel)
Pet Sematary (1983, novel)
Thinner (1984, novel, pseudonym Richard Bachman)
Skeleton Crew (1985, short stories)
It (1986, novel)
Misery (1987, novel)
The Tommyknockers (1987, novel)
The Dark Half (1989, novel)
Dolores Claiborne (1992, novel)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993, short stories)
Insomnia (1994, novel)
Rose Madder (1995, novel)
Bag of Bones (1998, novel)


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