Stephen King was born on September 21st, 1947 in Portland, Maine. This making him a 67 year old man who has written over fifty novels in his lifetime, with many more to come. Not only has this man succeeded in his writing career but has also faced many personal and inevitable obstacles along the way. Starting off his writing while working side jobs here and there to pay the bills, Stephen King soon became a horror novel phenomenon. His first novel being Carrie, he was soon selling over 350 million copies of his work all around the world. [Ste14] However, there is much more to the creditably acclaimed horror-fiction author we all know and love. This is what makes him more of an inspiration for what he faced and how his motivation to keep writing continued on.
Stephen King was not always the wealthy man we all know today. He grew up in Portland, Maryland living a poor life style with his mother. He always stayed close to home even through college. His mother succeeded to raise him and his older brother, David, when King’s father had walked out on them when he was nearly two. With the loss of his father in the picture, King was very insecure and depressed; having reoccurring nightmares of the most brutal scenarios. King had much trouble dealing with these demons until he discovered writing. He felt as though the only way to deal with these monsters was to write about them. Hence, the reasoning behind his dark works. [Dav09]
Although writing soothed his thoughts, going into college, he developed a dangerous drug habit; ranging from marijuana to LSD. Aside from drugs he began escaping reality by drinking as well. He managed to graduate at the University of Maine where he met his wife, Tabitha Spruce. With two children within a year, Naomi and Joe, King was struggling to support his family because of his high-school teacher salary until the publication of his first book, Carrie. His depression only seemed to worsen and he would strive fo...