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Second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King.
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Graduated from Lisbon Falls High School
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Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories.
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He wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper The Maine Campus.
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He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono, graduating in English and qualified to teach at the high school level.
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The family moved into their old residences selling the ones they had already bought. They eventually buy a house in Bangor, retaining the Center Lover home as a summer home.
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He met Tabitha at the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students.
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He wrote in the evenings and on weekends, continued to produce short stories and work on novels.
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Stephen stops teaching and decides to devote himself to writing
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They moved to southern Maine due to the poor health of Stephen's mother. Stephen wrote in a small room in the garage, his next published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before becoming 'Salem's Lot, in a small room in the garage. Finally the mother dies of cancer at the age of 59.
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The Kings bought a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. There Stephen wrote The Stand, and The Dead Zone.
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Stephen made his directorial debut, as well as writing the screenplay, in the film Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of his short story "Trucks")..
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Stephen was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature
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