Who is Stephen King ?

Film critic Roger Ebert once wrote that King’s memoir On Writing was the most insightful book for aspiring writers since The Elements of Style.

In 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van while walking down the street. The accident broke bones in his right leg, hip, and ribs. He also had a punctured lung and a head laceration. A few months later, newspapers reported that King had bought the offending van in order to smash it to pieces. In reality, his lawyers bought the van so that it wouldn’t wing up on eBay, and it was crushed at a scrapyard.

King has over 22 film appearances on IMDB. These roles are mostly cameos he has played in the movies based on his books. For example, in Pet Semetary he plays a minister.

King writes about Maine a lot because he knows and loves The Pine Tree State: he was born there, grew up there, and still lives there (in Bangor). Castle Rock, Derry, and Jerusalem's Lot—the fictional towns he has written about in his books—are just products of King's imagination, but he can tell you exactly where in the state they would be if they were real.

During an interview with Rolling Stone, King said that he disagrees with the labels of “young adult novels.” He himself is personally a Harry Potter fan.

Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine.

Throughout much of the 1980s, King struggled with drug and alcohol abuse. In discussing this time, he admitted that, "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all. I don't say that with pride or shame, only with a vague sense of sorrow and loss. I like that book. I wish I could remember enjoying the good parts as I put them down on the page."

He graduated from the University of Maine and later worked as a teacher while establishing himself as a writer.

Stephen King and Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin played poker together during Science Fiction conventions back in the 1980s.

It came to a head when his family members staged an intervention and confronted him with drug paraphernalia they had collected from his trash can. It was the eye-opener King needed; he got help and has been sober ever since.

Having also published work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King's first horror novel, Carrie, was a huge success.

King has been open about his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction. He has also admitted that he barely remembers writing the novel Cujo because of his alcohol and drug abuse.

King was an avid Lost fan and sometimes wrote about the show in his Entertainment Weekly column, "The Pop of King." The admiration was mutual. Lost's writers mentioned that King was a major influence in their work. There was a lot of speculation that he was the man behind Bad Twin, a Lost tie-in mystery, but he debunked that rumor.

Over the years, King has become known for titles that are both commercially successful and sometimes critically acclaimed.

In particular, King has a history of cocaine addiction, and his family had to stage an intervention to get him to stop taking the drug.

Stephen isn't the only writer in the King family: His wife, Tabitha King, has published several novels. Joe, their oldest son, followed in his dad's footsteps and is a bestselling horror writer (he writes under the pen name Joe Hill). Youngest child Owen has written a collection of short stories and one novella and he and his dad co-wrote Sleeping Beauties, which will be released later this month (Owen also married a writer). Naomi, the only King daughter, is a minister and gay activist.

His books have sold more than 350 million copies worldwide and been adapted into numerous successful films.

King has the Guinness World Record for the most motion picture adaptations from a living author.

Author Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine.

King says that when he goes to see the movies that are based on his books, he never expects the adaptation to stay completely loyal to his original story. As he says, I “know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.”

King is recognized as one of the most famous and successful horror writers of all time.

The Giving Tree received a small release in 1964 with just 5000 to 7500 copies printed for the first edition. Though its publisher clearly underestimated its potential popularity, it didn’t take long for the book to explode into a modern classic. It quickly became one of the most successful children’s books of the era and made Silverstein an important figure in the industry. Today, nearly 55 years after it was first published, The Giving Tree has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

His parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, split up when he was very young, and he and his brother David divided their time between Indiana and Connecticut for several years.

Despite the fact that he enjoys most of the film adaptations of his work, King was famously unhappy with Stanley Kubrick’s version of The Shining.

The Giving Tree centers on the relationship between a tree and a boy throughout the stages of his life—from his childhood to his elderly years. In each stage, the tree provides the boy with whatever he needs, ultimately giving him a stump to sit on when the tree has nothing else to give.