Success will never come when one gives up trying to reach it.

Success is primarily a result of

the effort one puts in. There are so many people in this world who already a success in their
life. Stephen King is one of the people who succeed in life. Stephen King is an American
bestselling author who specializes in science fiction, fantasy, horror and suspense stories.
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine, United States of
America. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman. Donald was born under
the surname Pollock, but as an adult, used the surname King. Stephen's mother was Nellie
Ruth (nee Pillsbury). The two were married on July 23, 1939, in Maine. Shortly afterward,
they lived with Donald's family in Chicago then moved to New York. The Kings returned to
Maine towards the end of World War II, living in a modest house in Scarborough. When
King was two years old, his father left the family. King's mother raised Stephen and his older
brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved from
Scarborough, depending on relatives in Chicago; Croton-on-Hudson; West De Pere,
Wisconsin; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Malden, Massachusetts; and Stratford, Connecticut When
King was 11, his family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents
until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally
challenge d King was raised Methodist but lost his belief in organized religion while in high
school. While no longer religious, King chooses to believe in the existence of God As a child,
King apparently his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of
the event. His family told him that after witnessed one of leaving home to play with the boy,
King returned, speechless and seemingly in shock. Only later did the family learn of the
friend's death. King sold his first professional short story, "The Glass Floor", to Startling
Mystery Stories in 1967.

After graduating from the University of Maine, King earned a certificate to teach high school
but, unable to find a teaching post immediately, initially supplemented his laboring wage by
selling short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier. Many of these early stories have
been republished in the collection Night Shift. The short story "The Raft" was published in
Adam, a men's magazine. After being arrested for driving over a traffic cone, he was fined
$250 and had no money to pay the petty larceny fine. However, payment arrived for the short
story "The Raft" (then entitled "The Float"), and King was able to pay the fine. In 1971, King
was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. He continued to contribute
short stories to magazines and worked on ideas for novels. King married Tabitha Spruce on
January 2, 1971. [146] She too is a novelist and philanthropic activist. The couple own and
divide their time between three houses: one in Bangor, Maine (set to become a museum and
writer's retreat [147]); one in Lovell, Maine; and for the winter a waterfront mansion located
off the Gulf of Mexico in Sarasota, Florida. The Kings have three children, a daughter and
two sons, and four grandchildren. [1] Their daughter Naomi is a Unitarian Universalist
Church minister in Plantation, Florida, with her lesbian partner, Rev. Dr. Thandeka. [148]
Both of the Kings' sons are authors: Owen King published his first collection of stories, We're
All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, in 2005. Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes as
Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, in 2005. His debut
novel, Heart-Shaped Box (2007), was optioned by Warner’s Bros. [149]

In the early 1970s, King developed a drinking problem which would plague him for more
than a decade.[150] Soon after Carrie's release in 1974, King's mother died of uterine cancer;
King has written of his severe drinking problem at this time, stating that he was drunk while
delivering the eulogy at his mother's funeral.[151]:69 King's addictions to alcohol and other
drugs were so serious during the 1980s that, as he acknowledged in On Writing in 2000, he
can barely remember writing Cujo.[151]:73 Shortly after the novel's publication, King's
family and friends staged an intervention, dumping on the rug in front of him evidence of his
addictions taken from his office including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Xanax,
Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan (cough medicine) and marijuana. As King related in his
memoir, he then sought help, quit all drugs (including alcohol) in the late 1980s, and has
remained sober since.The first novel he wrote after becoming sober was Needful Things.
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