Stephen Edwin King, a popular American writer, was born in Portland, Maine on September 21, 1949. He is a storyteller who plots to explore the effects of evil and fear (Academic American Encyclopedia 81; World Book 323). Stephen King goes by many names or pseudonyms and they are Richard Bachman and John Swithen(Major 20th Century Writers 1626). He said, “I just want to scare people. I’m very humble about that.” He has won both critical acclaim and enormous …showed first 75 words of 690 total…

…showed last 75 words of 690 total…of good and the evil, although he devotes most of his attention to the darker side. The important struggle for King in his book is that the heroes must first triumph over their own weaknesses. Don’t write for publication, he remarks, “Write it for yourself. It’s the only way you can come out of one of the world’s most grueling projects still able to face rejection with equanimity(Discovering Authors Jr. CD-ROM).”