... Stephen was enrolled in the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, where he graduated in 1966. In his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly article for the school newspaper, The Maine Campus. He was also very active in student political issues ... through his college career, Stephen published many stories in college literature magazines, but he had to make his milk money by working part time in the university's library. While working in the library, he met a student by the name of Tabitha Jane Spruce. After an awkward courtship, they we...

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... of the school newspaper, lampooning some of his teachers. That got him a week worth of detentions and a lot of apology letters to teachers he offended. In 1966, King attended the University of Maine with a scholarship that covered tuition and books. This is where he got into writing mystery stories and publishing them in the college literary magazine. He found inspiration in ... his isolation from his peers. During his four years at the University, he worked as a dishwasher, a Little League Coach, a gas attendant, and also the university library, where he met his future wife, Tabitha Sp...

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• Grade Level: High School