![]() ![]() His first submission was to Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine – the short story “Happy Stamps.” When he received the rejection note, with a personal note on it advising him not to staple manuscripts, he stuck it on a nail in his wall – a spot where he would collect many more such slips. King told Barnes & Noble in an interview: “I don’t have any memory of it myself, but I remember my mother saying they picked up the pieces in a basket.” ![]() She later found out that a young boy playing on the tracks had been hit by a train. He was already interested in the genre that would eventually make him famous, and enjoyed reading EC’s horror comics, but it was his experience of normal life that had the biggest influence on his work.Īccording to King’s mother, he came home one day after playing with friends and was “white as a sheet.” He didn’t say why but went into his room and curled up on his bed. He had an early interest in reading and writing, and soon started working on his brother’s newspaper Dave’s Rag, which would eventually get him into trouble at school. He had a religious upbringing, his mother being a Methodist. When he was two years old, his father “went to buy cigarettes” and left his mother to raise him and his brother David. ![]() Stephen Edwin King was born in Maine, in the US, in 1947. I really can’t imagine doing anything else and I can’t imagine not doing what I do.” – Stephen King I was made to write stories and I love to write stories. “There was nothing else I was made to do. ![]()
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