Every inhabitant of this planet has heard about the works of Stephen King. But regarding interesting facts from the life of this great man who worked for people, little is known. His personal life has many secrets and mysteries.
1. Stephen King's mother became the first reader of his creations.
2. Stephen King's mother paid him for the first 4 works at 25 cents each.
3. During the three years of married life of Stephen King and his wife, they had three children.
4. A novel called "Kerry" was Stephen King's breakthrough to fame. But first, he threw this creation into the trash can. The drafts were saved by his wife.
5. The life of this great man could have ended in 1999 due to a car accident. As a result, the writer was saved, and he managed to return to everyday life.
6. Stephen King is a fan of rock music. He even played rhythm guitar himself.
7. At the age of 11, Stephen King collected newspaper clippings about the crimes of Starkweather. They attracted him greatly.
8. As Stephen King wrote the novel "Tommyknockers", he does not remember, because he had problems with drugs and alcoholic beverages.
9.Stephen King refers to own creativity ironically.
10. King had the strictest discipline: he had to write at least 2000 words a day.
11. Deal with drug addiction Stephen was helped by his wife Tabby.
12. Stephen King does not recognize the presence of a cell phone.
13. Stephen has never been in the army because of his state of health, but he has always been involved in sports.
14. Stephen King is afraid of psychiatrists and flying.
15. In 2008, Stephen King opposed changes to the law that would ban the sale of violent video games to minors.
17. In 1991, a man appeared on the doorstep of King's house and threatened his family with a bomb.
18. As a child, Stephen King was a rather sickly boy.
Stephen King as a child
19. Acquaintance with the future wife of King happened in college.
20. More than 250 works in a lifetime were written by Stephen King.
21. Stephen King's daughter named Naomi belongs to sexual minorities.
22. King played in a rock band.
23. As a child, Stephen King witnessed terrible tragedy: before his eyes, his peer fell under a freight train.
24. Stephen King was in 1st grade twice.
25. In 1971, Stephen King got married.
26. King and his wife own 3 houses: in Bangor, Maine and Lovell.
27. Stephen King is considered a fan of baseball.
28. Stephen King in 2014 participated in the famous flash mob “Ice Bucket Challenge”, the essence of which was pouring ice water in front of the camera to raise charity money for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
29. At the age of 12, Stephen and his brother decided to publish a newspaper.
30. Immediately, Stephen King could not enter the university.
This article provides a list of very interesting facts about Stephen King, some of which, many readers might not even know...
1. King is a fan of the television series Lost and wrote an article about the show for the Entertainment Weekly. Rumors that King wrote a book related to the series, The Sinister Twin, under the pseudonym Gary Troup, have not been confirmed.
3. The book "Rage" was withdrawn from sale. When real school shootings began to occur in Kansas, a copy of this book was found in a juvenile delinquent who killed three of his classmates, after which the author himself decided to withdraw the book from sale.
4. Stephen King is the creator of the fictional town of Castle Rock.
5. King's daughter Naomi married a woman named Tandeka, who works as a school theology teacher. The wedding took place in Nashville, Tennessee in June 2000.
6. The 304-page novel "Running Man" King wrote in just 10 days (Source - "Memoirs of the Craft").
7. Owns three radio stations in Maine.
8. In 1992, the Kings sponsored the construction of Mansfield Stadium, and in 2002, Stephen made the first "pitch" at the opening game of the International Senior League in baseball.
9. King is a fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball club.
10. King is a fan of the Ramones punk band. Refrain from their iconic "Blitzkrieg Bop" song "Hey-ho, let's go!" (Eng. "Hey-ho, let's go!") became the epigraph to the second part of the novel "Pet Cemetery". As a token of their appreciation, the Ramones wrote the song "Pet Sematary" which is featured in the film of the same name.
11. King was treated for alcohol and cocaine addiction. (The source is his numerous mentions of this in many afterwords of books and interviews. For example, the afterword to "Bag of Bones" or "Memoirs of a Craft").
12. In 1988, King received an offer to write and direct the film A Nightmare on Elm Street 5.
13. In 1999, King was the victim of a ridiculous accident - a young guy was distracted by a dog traveling with him in a van and knocked down a writer walking near the highway. Stephen still feels the consequences - the former broken ribs, leg and damaged lung make themselves felt.
14. King doesn't use mobile phone. Perhaps the reasons for this are revealed in the novel Mobile Phone (2006).
15. At the dawn of his literary career, King, disappointed in the failure of his stories, wanted to quit literature, but his wife dissuaded him.
16. In the first part of the video game "Silent Hill" there are several "easter eggs" referring to the work of King.
18. Often sells film rights to his works for $ 1 to beginners and already famous directors because he loves adaptations of his novels.
19. When Stephen was 2 years old, his father left the house for cigarettes and did not return. His fate has remained unclear.
20. As a teenager, King was going to volunteer in Vietnam, but his mother managed to insist that he first receive higher education. As a result, Stephen was never taken into the army due to his vision difficulties and flat feet.
21. The novels "Fury" and "The Long Walk" were written by King even before he started working on "Carrie", but due to various circumstances, he could not print them for quite a long time.
Today I would like to talk about the world idol of horror fans - Stephen King.
Not so long ago, he turned 66 (I just want to add another six).
During his life, he wrote more than 250 works, and many of his creations can now rightfully be called cult.
Under the cut, I suggest you look at some unknown, but interesting facts from the life of the legend of world literature.
Many have heard the story that Stephen King's father mysteriously disappeared when the boy was two years old and his brother David was four. Just went out for cigarettes and didn't come back. Only as adults did the brothers learn that their father had started another family, in which he had four children and had lived all the time near their old house. By the way, David is not Stephen's brother, he was adopted two years before the birth of the writer. But Stephen King himself never mentions it. Stephen was a sickly boy. One of the most vivid childhood impressions from childhood is otitis, which the writer fell ill with in the first grade (at the age of five) and the pain from piercing the eardrum, which he had to endure during three procedures. “My cry is still in my ears,” he wrote, almost fifty years later. During one of his serious illnesses, six-year-old Stephen decided to rewrite the comic with a sequel, just out of boredom. That's where it started literary activity. “My cry is still in my ears,” he wrote, almost fifty years later.
King's first reader was his mother (it was she who prompted him to write his own stories). When he brought her four own works, she paid the boy 25 cents each. “It was my first dollar I ever made,” writes Stephen King. His mother's support and his faith in his son's ability helped him later.
In the late fifties in America produced children's magazine"Famous Monsters of Filmland". Its editor, Forrest J. Ackerman, is a literary agent and lover of fantasy. This magazine was Stephen's favorite reading material.
Later, Forrest began to publish another magazine - "Cosmonaut", in which the boy sent his first story. The story was never published, and Stephen King happily forgot about it. But twenty years later famous writer had to face his childhood story - he signed it for ... Forrest J. Ackerman, who kept this unremarkable work all these years. The first issue of the magazine "Famous Monsters of Filmland", 1958
In 1962, Dave and Stephen King published a home newspaper called Dave's Mustard Platter, which was read by the entire town of Derham. First, the boys made prints on a hectograph, and then they bought a rotaprint. Somewhat later, it was on this hectograph that Stephen printed the first book, on the cover of which was written “the work of Stephen King” - a free reworking of one of his favorite horror films under the “edgarposh” title “The Well and the Pendulum”.
Stephen King met his wife in college. After three years of marriage, they already had three children. To feed them, the writer had to work in the laundry. During this time, he wrote "The Night Shift" and "Sometimes They Come Back" - at night and at lunchtime. Stephen King says of writing, "The job of a writer has as much to do with sweeping the floor as it does with mythical moments of insight."
The breakthrough to fame was the novel Carrie (1974), which King initially threw in the trash. The drafts were found and saved by his wife Tabitha, who also forced the writer to finish the novel after all. By that time, Fury, The Long Walk, and The Running Man had already been written.
By the way, Stephen King does not like his "Kerry". He says he doesn't understand main character and does not believe some of the characters. The rights to this novel were sold by his literary agent to Signet Books for $400,000. This money helped the writer's family to get out of poverty. First edition of Carrie, 1974
In King's works one can often find analogies with his own biography. The novel "Misery" (1987), in which an abnormal nurse holds the writer captive (the film adaptation of this novel is one of the most successful adaptations of King, with the inimitable Kathy Bates, who won Oscar and Golden Globe awards for her role in this film) , he wrote about himself in captivity to alcohol and drugs.
The Tommyknockers (1987) is an analogy novel, a cry for help. The voices in the head of the writer, who took possession of her will and invisible alien rulers of the mind. King joked that he had already drunk so much that he did not remember writing "Cujo" (1981), a novel about a St. Bernard who caught rabies. Since the late 80s, the writer has not drunk a drop of alcohol. Kathy Bates as Mad Nurse. One of the scariest shots from the movie Misery, 1990
In 1999, Stephen King's life could have ended in a car accident. Or rather, he himself did not get into an accident, he was hit by a van flying at breakneck speed, driven by a not quite normal driver named Brian Smith. At the time of the accident, he reached into the back seat to push his Rottweiler away from the meat fridge. The writer was saved, and he even returned to normal life, although at first no one believed in such an optimistic outcome, especially the doctor who first examined the writer after the accident. The most interesting thing is that Brian Smith himself is like a character who has descended from the King's pages, flying into reality to do away with the creator.
King, who is known to be a fan of rock music, for a long time played rhythm guitar in the all-writer Rock Bottom Reaminders rock band. Moreover, the group did not just gather in the garage of one of its members, but performed with concerts, had its fans and even brought in a certain income. In addition to music, writers discussed their literary achievements and ideas - such a versatile creative union.
In many of King's works, there are "winks" to the Regular Reader - a person who, without any doubt, exists in reality, for whom Stephen King wrote and still writes. Heroes of one work, casually mentioned in another, bringing together various cycles and storylines, the unity of place and time - all these features of writing make the books written by him a single work- a lifetime of a man named Stephen King.
Source
Forbes magazine has published the top 10 highest paid writers. At the end of the year, the author of the thrillers "And the Spider Came" and "Kissing the Girls" James Patterson, took first place in the ranking, earning $ 70 million. According to the publication, the state of the writer can be significantly replenished by 2012. In two years, the author must write 11 works for adults and six books for children.
In second place in the ranking was Stephenie Meyer, who became popular thanks to the Twilight series of vampire novels. Her books have been filmed three times and translated into more than 30 languages. More than 100 million copies of her novels have been sold worldwide. Mayer's fortune increased by $40 million in a year. Rounding out the top three is Stephen King ($34 million), who earned royalties from the sale of his early works. King's latest novel, Under the Dome, was released in November 2009 and has sold over 600,000 copies.
In last, tenth place is the former leader, the highest paid writer of the planet in 2008, British J. K. Rowling, the author of the saga of the boy wizard Harry Potter. If two years ago she earned $ 300 million (four times more than Patterson now), now her income has decreased to a modest 10 million, Forbes specifies.
Top 10 most successful fiction writers at the end of the year:
James Patterson - $70 million
Stephenie Meyer - $40 million
Stephen King - $34 million
Danielle Steel - $32 million
Ken Follett - $20 million
Dean Koontz - $18 million
Janet Evanovich - $17 million;
John Grisham - $15 million;
Nicholas Sparks - $14 million;
J.K. Rowling - $10 million
Today I would like to talk about the world idol of horror fans - Stephen King. Not so long ago he turned 66 (I just want to add another six). During his life, he wrote more than 250 works, and many of his creations can now rightfully be called cult. Under the cut, I suggest you look at some unknown, but interesting facts from the life of the legend of world literature.
Today I would like to talk about the world idol of horror fans - Stephen King. Not so long ago he turned 66 (I just want to add another six). During his life, he wrote more than 250 works, and many of his creations can now rightfully be called cult. Under the cut, I suggest you look at some unknown, but interesting facts from the life of the legend of the world literature.
By the way, Stephen King does not like his "Kerry". According to him, he does not understand the main character and does not believe some of the characters. The rights to this novel were sold by his literary agent to Signet Books for $400,000. These money helped the writer's family get out of poverty. First edition of Carrie, 1974.
In the works of King, one can often find analogies with his own biography. The novel "Misery" (1987), in which an abnormal nurse holds the writer captive (the film adaptation of this novel is one of the most successful adaptations of King, with the inimitable Kathy Bates, who won Oscar and Golden Globe awards for her role in this film) , he wrote about himself in captivity to alcohol and drugs.
The Tommyknockers (1987) is an analogy novel, a cry for help. The voices in the head of the writer, who took possession of her will and invisible alien rulers of the mind. King joked that he had already drunk so much that he did not remember writing "Cujo" (1981), a novel about a St. Bernard who caught rabies. Since the late 80s, the writer has not drunk a drop of alcohol. Kathy Bates as Mad Nurse. One of the scariest shots from the movie Misery, 1990.
In 1999, Stephen King's life could have ended in automotive accidents. Or rather, he himself did not get into an accident, he was hit by a van flying at breakneck speed, driven by a not quite normal driver named Brian Smith. At the time of the accident, he reached into the back seat to push his Rottweiler away from the meat fridge. The writer was saved, and he even returned to normal life, although at first no one believed in such an optimistic outcome, especially the doctor who first examined the writer after the accident. The most interesting thing is that Brian Smith himself is like a character who has descended from the King's pages, flying into reality to do away with the creator.
King, who is known to be a fan of rock music, had a long history of playing rhythm guitar in the all-writer rock band the Rock Bottom Reamanders. Moreover, the group did not just gather in the garage of one of its members, but performed with concerts, had its fans and even brought in a certain income. In addition to music, writers discussed their literary achievements and ideas - such a versatile creative union.
In many of King's works, there are "winks" to the Regular Reader - a person who, without any doubt, exists in reality, for whom Stephen King wrote and still writes. Heroes one work, casually mentioned in another, bringing together various cycles and storylines, the unity of place and time - all these features of writing make the books he wrote a single work - the life of a man named Stephen King.
