Having penned over 200 short stories – many set in his home town of Maine and the most famous arguably being his novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption – it was no surprise when he was awarded a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature in 2015.ġ.
I really can’t imagine doing anything else and I can’t imagine not doing what I do.” I was made to write stories and I love to write stories. When asked why he writes, King responds: “The answer to that is fairly simple - there was nothing else I was made to do. Simple as that.”įamous for his terrifying prose, King writes horror, supernatural, science fiction, fantasy and, more recently, crime novels. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.
Master thriller writer Stephen King has penned over 50 novels, selling 350 million copies in a career that spans over 40 years.
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