Stephen King: A Biography

by Albert Rolls

Overview

Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth, far from glittering publishing and film centers, yet few American writers can now equal his hold on audiences worldwide. This biography traces King's evolution from would-be pulp magazine writer to master of his craft, whose work both epitomizes and transcends the horror genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313345722
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/30/2008
Series:	Greenwood Biographies
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	1,162,230
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Albert Rolls teaches at Touro College in New York City and has also taught at John Jay College, LaGuardia Community College, and other institutions in the City University of New York system. He coedited H. W. Wilson's World Authors 2000-2005 and Current Biography International Yearbook, 2006 and is assistant editor of Wilson's Current Biography series.

Table of Contents

Preface
Timeline: Events in the Life of Stephen King
Chapter 1:Taking Up the Pen
Chapter 2:Becoming a Writer
Chapter 3:Finding a Publisher
Chapter 4:Beginning to Establish the Name Stephen King
Chapter 5:Becoming the King
Chapter 6:Responding to Fame and Fortune
Chapter 7:Settling into His Position
Chapter 8:Negotiating His Private and Public Lives
Chapter 9
Chapter 10:Kings Status Rises
Chapter 11: The Sense of an Ending
Chapter 12:Letting People Recover
Chapter 13:Taking a Stand
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18:The Long Recovery
Chapter 19:Retiring, Again
Chapter 20:His Busy Retirement Continues
Bibliography