Stephen King

Stephen King is an American author of horror and genre fiction and is one of the most famous and successful novelists of the 20th century.
== Biography ==
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21st, 1947 in Portland, Maine to Donald Edwin King (born Pollack before changing it) and Nellie Ruth King (nee Pillsbury). When Stephen was only two, Donald left the family and his mother raised Stephen and his older brother David all by herself, often under financial strain. The King family moved from city to city across America depending on relatives before staying in Durham, Maine when Stephen was 11 while his mother looked after her parents until their deaths. Afterward, she became a caregiver in a local facility for the mentally disabled.
At some point during his childhood, King had seen a friend struck and killed by a train, though it is an event he states he has no memory of having, likely due to shock, and it was related to him by his family later. Though some critics implied it influenced the author's darker works, he makes no mention of the incident in his memoir and guide to writing On Writing.
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