The Shining. Checked Out. Download for print-disabled. Borrow Listen. You'll be next in line. Pet Sematary. The Gunslinger. Salem's Lot. Readers waiting for this title: 72 Download for print-disabled. The Green Mile. Skeleton Crew. On Writing. The Dead Zone. The Stand. Not in Library. The Talisman. Night Shift. The Drawing of the Three. The Waste Lands. Bag of Bones. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother.
Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs.
King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in , with a B. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines.
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