Title: The Stephen King companion
Description: Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 photos, color illustrations by celebrated "Dark Tower" artist Michael Whelan, and black-and-white drawings by Maine artist Glenn Chadbourne; supplemented with interviews with friends, colleagues, and mentors who knew King well; looking at King's formative years in Durham, when he began writing fiction as a young teen, his college years in the turbulent sixties, his struggles with early poverty, working full-time as an English teacher while writing part-time, the long road to the publication of his first novel, Carrie, and the dozens of bestselling books and major screen adaptations that followed; covering his varied and prodigious output--this book is a comprehensive guide to the imaginative world of Stephen King.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, American Horror tales, Litte rature d'e pouvante ame ricaine, Critique et interpre tation, Histoire et critique, Aufsatzsammlung, King, stephen, 1947-, Horror tales, history and criticism, Horror tales
People: Stephen King (1947-)