Stephen King
...r-fantasy novels which contributed to his fascination with the eerie and supernatural. When King was in High School he was a member of the football team, band and he spent his time writing stories that he contributed to mystery magazines. He then went on to college at the University of Maine where he would eventually meet his future wife. While in college he pursued a degree in English. After graduating in 1970 he then became a high school English teacher. He would spend his days teaching, and nights and weekends writing short stories and novels. He quickly became discouraged once his first two efforts at a novel were rejected. Lucky for King though, he had a wife who believed that one of the novels that got rejected was very good and urged him to try once again to get it published. So he once again sent in the novel, this time to Doubleday & Co., who thought the story was great and then gave him a cash advance to publish the book. This story, Carrie, began a career full of horror and suspense novels, screenplays, and film adaptations for King. King became known for being a master at the art of blending elements of the eerie, supernatural, horror and suspense. Although King is mostly known for his horror stories, King also has written stories that fall into other categories. These would include stories such as Stand by Me, Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile. Stephen King has come a long ways since the young writer in Maine. He is now considered the richest writer in world history; and was named as one of the highest-grossing US entertainers according to Forbes. In his career, King has sold over 100 million books, and in 1999 King moved into the digital world and began writing The Plant, which was made exclusively for the website he made. He then charged readers $1.00 to download a chapter for them to read. Surprisingly, many Stephen King fans loved it and he plans on doing it again in the future. Stephen King not only experiences horror in his writings but also in real life. In 1999, one of the stories he wrote suddenly became a reality. King was struck by a minivan near his home in Maine...