Stephen King Childhood

In this biography about Stephen King we are going to talk about how his childhood was not like most children's childhoods,and how he excelled in school and about his high school and college success that eventually lead to a very successful career,and how he wrote short stories under the name of Richard Bachman.

Stephen King's childhood was not like normal children’s. As a kid he, had many health problems like his hearing, his kidneys, and severe migraines that made his nose bleed extensively. His hearing got worse as he got older, to the point where he went to the hospital and they had to stick a needle in his ear drum which made pus and other fluids come out of his ears, his ears continued to drain for a few years after this. Stephen King …show more content…
He got into writing horror stories because of his fears, he had many, but the main ones on the top of his list are Alzheimer's, spiders, enclosed spaces, the dark, sewers, bridges, cemeteries and the thin line between good and evil. While he was waiting for his writing career to take off, he found a job as an English professor. King was not going to give up on his dream of being a novelist, and he kept sending his books and short stories to publishers until he got published. Before he was known as Stephen King he was known Richard Bachman. Before Stephen King was known as Stephen King he wrote short stories as Richard Bachman. He wrote many short stories under this pen name and most people liked these short stories. When he changed his publishing name his readers were surprised because the short stories he wrote were dark, but when he started to publish his novels he took his dark work to a whole new level. Critics say his work could be compared to Edgar Allen Poe because his work was so