Question: Stand By Me, famously starring River Phoenix, was a film adapted from a short story called The Body, by which famous author?
Sentence (from "Stand by Me (film)"): The film, whose plot is based on Stephen King's novella "The Body" (1982) and title is derived from Ben E. King's eponymous song, which plays over the ending credits, tells the story of four boys in a small town in Oregon who go on a hike to find the dead body of a missing child.
Relevant evidence: Yes