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The long march to the Dark Tower began in 1970 when Stephen King, still a fledgling writer with outsized ambitions, was an undergraduate at the University of Maine. It was then that he wrote the opening chapters of the first book in the series. The project faltered for a while, was eventually revived and has since proceeded in fits and starts, with gaps as long as six years between installments. Recently, in the aftermath of his near-fatal accident in 1999, King turned his full attention to this long, protracted saga, producing three large volumes in rapid succession. The seventh and final volume, The Dark Tower, should more than satisfy his voracious readers. It is an absorbing, constantly surprising novel filled with true narrative magic, a fitting capstone to a uniquely American epic.
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Since the early 1970s, Stephen King has been America's most famous horror writer. His books are a mainstay of paperback bookracks everywhere, and have spawned a multi-media franchise that includes movies, TV shows, video games and comic books. King is famously fecund, turning out a novel a year and sometimes more. His string of bestsellers began with Carrie (1974), and his early horror novels include Salem's Lot (1975), The Shining (1977) and The Dead Zone (1979), all of which have been adapted for film or television. Since conquering the horror market, King has written novels in other genres and experimented with various publishing methods, including issuing installments of The Green Mile (1996) and beginning the Internet-first publication of The Plant in 2000 (commercially unsuccessful, installments were suspended after five months). King's other books include: The Stand (1978); Firestarter (1980); Cujo (1981); Pet Sematary (1983); Insomnia (1984); Misery (1987); Delores Claiborne (1992); Bag of Bones (1998); and Cell (2006).
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S[T]ephen King has nobody to blame but himself for the failure. Many people were enthusiastic, but he was the one who failed. It should have been done on at least a weekly basis. Who wants to wait so long between sections? He raised the price so that what should have ended up costing no more than $9 was going to cost $13 or more. The sections were very short.
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Stephen King's publishers have recently released revised versions of the author's novels. Unfortunately, many of the titles have changed into other words. See if you can match the correct book to the new titles. Good luck!
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Stephen King married Tabitha Spruce in January 1971. They had met in the Fogler Library of the University of Maine where they both had worked. During the years before Carrie was born the Kings had little money but a few sales of short stories helped the family along. They have three children Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip and one grandchild, Ethan, son to Joe and his wife Leanora. They have lived mostly in Maine throughout their marriage apart from a brief stay in Boulder, Colorado and a cut short stay in the UK in 1977. Maine features in almost all of King's books and as the biographical note in many of them says it is "his home state and the place where he feels he really belongs".
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Stephen King than began work on a short story about a teenage girl named Carietta White. After a completing a few pages, King decided it was not a worthy story and crumpled the pages up and tossed them into the trash. Fortunately for Stephen, his wife Tabitha took the pages out and read them. She encouraged her husband to continue the story. He did. In January 1973, King submitted Carrie to Doubleday.
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