Childhood In Stephen King's Work

The childhood that Stephen King had is portrayed in his work as a writer. He was born to Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King September twenty-first of nineteen forty-seven, two years later his father left Stephen, his older brother and mother. After Stephen’s father left them the three moved around quite a bit for family and their mother’s work. Having only one parent for the majority of his life Stephen drew very close to her, by dedicating two books to her before her death from cancer years later, and describing his mother; “In Danse Macabre as a talented pianist and a women with a great and sometimes eccentric sense of humor, kept the family together by working at a succession of low paying jobs,” she was someone he loved dearly …show more content…
Shortly after they got married Stephen worked as a Laundry Laborer because he was unable to find a teaching job right after graduation, but King did find a teaching job at Hampden Academy later on that same year. Stephen King taught during the day while continuing to write short stories at night, his first professional short story that he sold was “The Glass Floor”. From the year nineteen seventy-seven to nineteen seventy-nine the King’s moved to England, Center Lowell, Maine, and then to North Orringtion for Stephen King’s job as a creative writing teacher. Nineteen seventy-three was a big year for the King’s moving back to Maine to aid Stephen’s fifty-nine year old mother in her last days, and having his first American horror novel accepted for publication by Double Day & Co. ( “King, Stephen” The Author). Years later in nineteen ninety-nine King suffered from a major accident outside his house in Maine, he suffered severe injuries from the accident, yet continued to write and work when he was only half way healed (Barth …show more content…
In his early years, King attended Durham grammar school and then went on to Listbon Falls High School graduating in the year of nineteen sixty-six. While in school Stephen wrote for “The Maine Campus” the school’s newspaper, at the University of Maine at Orono. He met his wife there and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and the capability to teach at a high school level (“King, Stephen” The