Stephen Edwin King borned in Portland, Maine, USA, on September 21 1947.  He is a very famous horror writer.

He start to write when he was thirteen, he first sent his works to magazines without receiving any money and without positive results. On 1966 to 1971, he studied english at Maine College in Orono where he meet Tabitha, and the they got married on 1971. His first novel to be published, is Carrie, however is not his first novel, actually it is the fourth novel that he wrote. Then he start to being more and more famous, and he also had win a lot of prizes, like the British Fantasy Society, on 1987, because of his famous novel "IT". He is also the creator of one of the more famous horror novels, "The shining", that is also a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.