Stephen King is one of the richest writers of our time, in 1996 he earned over $86 million according to Forbes Magazine. Born in 1947, King started his writing career at an early age. His creativity was sparked by a stack of his father’s old science fiction magazines he found in his attic. By the age of seven he was writing science fictional short stories of his own. By the age of ten he was writing columns in his brother’s local newspaper called Dave’s Rag. Graduating with a B. S. in English from the University of Maine in 1970, he had a slow start to fame. One of his most famous works, Carrie, wouldn’t have survived if it weren’t for Stephen’s wife, Tabitha, who rescued it from the bottom of the trash can next to Stephen’s desk. Throughout his life Stephen King has been a janitor, a library aide, and a tenth and eleventh grade high school English teacher. He is now known as the author of horror and science fiction novels that have captured our minds and scared us to death.

Stephen Edwin King was born in rural Portland, Maine on September 21, 1947. He was

Stephen King went to college at the University of Maine, in Orono, Maine. At U of M King chose English to be his majoring course. In his sophomore year King started writing in the University’s newspaper called The Maine Campus. Stephen was active in school activities, taking part in photo shoots at the schools sports events for the school newspaper. King also interviewed both the players and coaches for the columns he wrote. King was also active in school politics, serving as a member of the school senate. In his junior year Stephen started working as a library aide in the Fogler Library at the University of Maine. The job helped pay off part of his student loan and make a little cash on the side. The Fogler Library was the place that Stephen met his future wife, Tabitha Spruce. Ms. Spruce was also a writer, taking creative writing as her major. King graduated form U of M in 1970, leaving with a B. S. in English. Tabitha Spruce also graduated in 1970, and a year later Tabitha and Stephen were married.

Today King has over a hundred million copies of his works in print and the number keeps climbing. For being one of the richest writers in the world, King lives quietly in Bangor, Maine with his wife Tabitha. Stephen and Tabitha have three kids, Naomi, Joe, and Owen, who are now grown and out of the house with kids of their own. King is a regular contributor to the American Cancer Society, giving large donations frequently. He provides scholarships to local high school students through Hampden Academy, and contributes to many other charities.

King’s family moved repeatedly throughout his childhood. He lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Stratford, Connecticut in parts of his life. When Stephen was eleven years old he and his family moved to Durham, Maine, for good. Stephen went to grammar school in Durham and went to Lisbon Falls High School. King’s writing career stared at an early age when he stumbled onto a stack of his father’s old science fiction magazines in the attic of his childhood home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fascinated by the stories in the magazines, Stephen started to copy down the stories and make his own revisions to them that he thought they needed. His mother encouraged him to write his own stories in stead of copying them f

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