Stephen king biography facts

Born: September 21, 1947
Portland, Maine
American author

Stephen King is a very popular author of horror fiction. In his works he blends elements of the traditional gothic (bleak and threatening) tale with those of the modern psychological (how the mind works) thriller, detective, and science fiction stories.

His early years

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

When he was two years old, his father left the family, leaving his mother to care for Stephen and his older brother, David.

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She took a series of low-paying jobs to support her children, and as a result the boys saw little of their mother.

As a boy King found a box of fantasyhorror fiction books and stories that had belonged to his father, and he read them all.

By the time King was seven he had begun writing his own stories. He enjoyed watching science fiction and monster movies.

"Writing has always been it for me," King indicated in a panel discussion at the 1984 Wo