Doubleday editor William Thompson – who would eventually become King’s close friend – sent a telegram to King’s house in late March or early April 1973 which read: “Carrie Officially A Doubleday Book. When Carrie was chosen for publication, King’s phone was out of service. It was written on a portable typewriter that belonged to his wife. Carrie was King’s fourth novel, but it was the first to be published. In 1973, King’s novel Carrie was accepted by publishing house Doubleday. He has been described as the “King of Horror”, a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Stephen King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books.
His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. and menacing.Stephen Edwin King (1947 – ) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Let the reader beware, for Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerizing. What they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge.
And once they get her they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. Her parents have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything-toys, clothes, even people-aflame.īut The Shop knows about and wants this pigtailed "ultimate weapon." Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from the streets of New York to the backwoods of Vermont. Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire. In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a drug experiment run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange. The hair on his arms suddenly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. "Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge.
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