Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine, and raised in modest circumstances by his mother after his father left the family when Stephen was two. He began writing stories as a child and sold his first professional short story while still in college at the University of Maine. His debut novel Carrie, published in 1974, launched a career that would make him one of the best-selling and most influential authors in the history of popular fiction, with over 350 million copies of his books sold worldwide. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Stand.