Stephen King Biography

Stepehen King someties also wrote under the pseudonyms of Richard Bachman and John Swithen.

His first published story was "In a Half-World of Terror" (retitled from "I Was a Teen-Age Grave-robber"), published in a horror fanzine issued by Mike Garrett of Birmingham, Alabama.

After finishing his university studies with a BA in English and obtaining a certificate to teach high school, King taught English at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. During this time, he and his family lived in a trailer. He wrote short stories (most were published in men's magazines) to help make ends meet. As told in the introduction in Carrie, if one of his kids got a cold, his wife Tabitha would joke, "Come on, Steve, think of a monster."

His first bestseller 'Carrie' nearly finished in the waste bin, King had trown it away, but his wife Tabitha recoverd the manuscript and it went on to become his first bestseller.