Stephen King - Part I

May 25, 2010

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Is it possible to obtain a &#&scholarship&#& for &#&career degree&#& if no one in your family has ever obtained it? Good question!! I don't have all the possible answers; I can only remember that some people could. They had the necessary determination and they did it.

Let's see something about

Stephen Edwin King

He was born in September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland Maine. His parents were Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. When he was 2 year's old, one night his father who was a merchant seaman, left home. He said he was going to walk for a while and buy some cigarettes. He never returned to his house. His family has never had any new about him since that night. Stephen and his older adopted brother David were left alone with his mother.

Nellie Ruth had no other option than to take over raising her family, sometimes under great financial strain. They had to move from one place to another over several years. When Stephen was eleven years old they finally returned back to Durham, Maine in 1958.

Stephen King, the famous writer of so many horror novels and movies, began writing for fun in January of 1959, while still at school, when he and his brother David decided to publish their own local town newspaper. It was named Dave's Rag, they produced it with a mimeograph machine that David had bought.

Copied on this mimeograph machine, and with a circulation of only 20 or so, Stephen wrote articles and even his views on upcoming television shows. Stephen copied some of his short stories and sold them to local people for a whole THIRTY CENTS! After that first "business", inspired in movies he had seen, he began selling stories to his friends. Actually Stephen sold some of his work at school (when his teachers discovered these activities he was forced to return the profits).

In 1966, Stephen King graduated from &#&high school&#&. Talking about his &#&high school&#& days, King recalled that "my &#&high school&#& career was totally undistinguished. I was not at the top of my class, nor at the bottom." Stephen took a &#&scholarship&#& to attend the &#&University of Maine&#& where he studied English, since1966 till 1970 when he graduated with a &#&Bachelor of Science in English&#& and a certificate to teach &#&high school&#&.