When King was two years old, his father left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes", leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. Stephen Edwin King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. They were married July 23, 1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. King's mother, Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury Ma– December 28, 1973), was born in Scarborough, Maine. King's father, Donald Edwin King, who was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, was a merchant seaman. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007). In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and his short story "The Man in the Black Suit" received the O. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine. He has written nearly two hundred short stories, most of which have been collected in nine collections of short fiction. King has published 50 novels, including seven under the pen-name of Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy.
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