Short answers, pulled from the story.
Carrie was published in hardback on the 5th of April 1974 by Doubleday, with a print run of 30,000 copies. A paperback edition followed in April 1975 under the Signet Books imprint of New American Library.
King combined two sources to create the concept: a scene he imagined of a teenage girl experiencing her first period in a locker room shower, mocked by her classmates, and an article from Life magazine about telekinesis. He based the character of Carrie White on two girls he had known in high school.
Brian De Palma directed the 1976 film adaptation of Carrie, with Sissy Spacek starring in the title role. The film opened on the 3rd of November 1976 to critical acclaim and commercial success.
The paperback edition sold one million copies in its first year. After the 1976 film adaptation, total paperback sales reached four million copies. By December 1976, Carrie had reached number 3 on the New York Times bestseller list.
The Royal Shakespeare Company staged the Carrie musical at the Virginia Theater in May 1988. Five performances ran from the 12th to the 15th of May before the production closed, losing more than $7 million and ranking among the most expensive failures in Broadway history.
King threw away the first three pages of Carrie's manuscript. He felt unable to write convincingly from a female perspective and saw no audience for the story. His wife Tabitha retrieved the pages from the trash and persuaded him to continue.