Stephen King's Life And Accomplishments

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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. His parents were divorced when he was still knee high to a grasshopper. His mother’s name was Nellie King and his father’s name was Donald king. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When he was eleven he moved with his mother to Durham, Maine. Stephen king began to look for a job and eventually found a job in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen king went to two schools, he went to grammar school in Durham, then graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. Then He married Tabitha Spruce in January of 1971. He met her at the library at the University of Maine. He graduated from the University of Maine at

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