![]() ![]() ![]() Over the next few years the King family lived variously in Boulder, Colarado even spent a short three-month stay in England before settling in Maine. ![]() During the next ten years, King battled with alcoholism, writing about the experiences in his popular non-fiction guide On Writing. King’s second story Salem’s Lot was written in his mother’s garage whilst he nursed her through the final stages of cancer. King claims he was idly thinking about his own high-school experiences when: "POW! Two unrelated ideas, adolescent cruelty and telekinesis, came together, and I had an idea…" The idea became the first draft of Carrie, but not before his wife had fished the discarded early pages out of the bin, insisting to know the rest of the story. King had been working on fiction in his spare time, in the meantime trying to make ends meet by working as a high school teacher and in an industrial laundry. Stephen King says the credit for his first published novel and breakthrough success, Carrie, lies in part, with his wife Tabitha. ![]() Born in Portland, Maine in 1947, Stephen King’s first published story, I Was a Teenage Grave Robber, appeared in 1965 in a fan magazine called Comics Review but it wasn’t until 1967 that he made any money from his writing, selling a short story entitled The Glass Floor to Startling Mystery Stories. ![]()
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