Stephen King has published a total of 66 novels. Achievement: Received the Master Edgar Allan Poe Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.Major achievements: Received the Medal for Outstanding Contribution to American Literature in 2003.Representative work: 'Dead Light', 'The Green Mile', 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'The Dark Tower' series, etc.Profession: Writer, Director, Producer, Actor.graduated school: Maine State University.Since the 1980s and 1990s, he has created and published many best-selling novels, and novels have also been continuously adapted into film and television works. Study English Literature at a state university.Īfter graduation, due to the meager salary, he embarked on the road of writing. Stephen King was born in a poor family in Maine, USA in 1947.

Representative works include ' The Shining ', ' The Shawshank Redemption ', ' The End Is Near ', ' Dead Light ', ' The Green Mile ', ' A Night Without Stars ' and so on. More than eighty short stories have been published so far. He has won the British Bram Stoker Award seven times, won the Outstanding Contribution Award from the National Book Foundation of the United States in 2003, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the World Fantasy Literature Award, and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award Master of the American Mystery Writers Association in 2007 prize.Īmerican novelist has been shortlisted for the British Bram Stoker Award, the American Mystery Writers Association Edgar Award, the International Thrilling Fiction Award, etc. His works reflect the worrying realities of American society with strange imaginations, revealing the real anxieties and human nature in daily life. Stephen Edwin King (Stephen Edwin King, Septem-), is a well-known American writer, who has written scripts, and column reviews, and worked as a film director, producer, and actor.

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