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Stephen King Author & Editor

Stephen King is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Carrie, Stephen King's legendary debut about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates, is a classic. It is the novel which set King on the road to becoming the No. 1 bestselling author he is today.

Many of King's titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, two versions of Carrie and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.