Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Main on the twenty first of September 1947. King’s brother, David King, was born in 1945. King’s parents are Nellie Ruth Pilsbury and Donald King. In 1954, King started writing short fiction modeled after science fiction and adventure stories and movies. Through 1962 and 1966, King attended Lisbond Falls, Maine High school. After high school, King received a scholarship to attend the University of Maine at Orono, where he became an English major through 1966 to 1970. During college, he wrote a weekly column called “King’s Garbage Truck” for the college newspaper. In 1971 through 1973, King

In 1949, when Stephen King was just two years old, Donald King disappeared permanently from his family. There were no indications as to where Donald had withdrawn to. A few years later in life, King found a collection of paperbacks of fantasy-horror and fiction novels, as well as clippings of his father’s favorite authors. One included H.P. Lovecraft. Along with the paperbacks were several horror stories that Stephen’s father had written and submitted unsuccessfully to various magazines. These books and writings excited Stephen, and sparked his fascination in writing. In most of king’s novels, he never mentioned or included a father for his characters. These instances have been strongly noticed in his novels Christine and Carrie. In the novel Christine, Arnie who is the main character, does not have a very strong father figure. Arnie finds his love with a car he calls Christine. In Carrie, a father was never mentioned. Carrie, the main character, was a tormented child who lashed out in an abyss of destruction. She had an obsessively religious and insane mother. She was never shown love.

King has portrayed much death in his novels do to very traumatic experiences. For instance, When Stephen King was only four years old, he witnessed his friend being run over by a train (Hanson 163). This traumatic experience was only later expressed in his novel The Body. The novel told of a group of friends who were in search of a lost friend, only to find that their friend was killed by a p

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