Stephen King

Known for WritingBorn 1947-09-21 (age 78)Portland, Maine, USA

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. He is widely known for his horror novels and has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has also explored other genres: suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections. His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror. Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone and Christine (both 1983), Stand by Me(1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and It (2017). He has also published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000). Among other awards, he has won the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller for 11/22/63 (2011). He has also won honours for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities." Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen King, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Milkman

Gray Matter

Roland Meets Brown

Close Up

The Rock Bottom Remainders

Dedication

Meister des Grauens - Thomas Gottschalk präsentiert Stephen King

Luckey Quarter

All That You Love

Stephen King: Master of Horror

Gotham Cafe

The Shawshank Redemption

The Green Mile

Sons of Anarchy

IT: Welcome to Derry

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

Survivor Type

The X-Files

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

Mute

Harvey's Dream

Ghosts

The Man in the Black Suit

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

Autopsy Room Four

A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King

The Shining

Mute

Duncanville

11.22.63

100 Scariest Movie Moments

Stephen King's World of Horror

The Simpsons

The Institute

Stand by Me

Rainy Season

Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune

Misery

The Outer Limits

Nightshift Collection

Frasier

Grey Matter

The Dead Zone

Haven

The Man Who Loved Flowers

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

The Twilight Zone

The Outsider