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