Short answers, pulled from the story.
Stephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. He was raised by his mother Nellie Ruth Pillsbury after his father Donald Edwin King left the family when Stephen was two years old.
Stephen King threw the first three pages of Carrie into the trash in 1973, but his wife Tabitha Spruce retrieved them and encouraged him to expand the story. The novel was published in 1974 and established him as a major force in the horror genre.
Stephen King published five short novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman to bypass the publishing industry limit of one book per year. The secret identity was exposed in 1985, and King announced the death of the pseudonym from cancer of the pseudonym.
Stephen King was struck by a blue Dodge van driven by Bryan Edwin Smith on the 19th of June 1999 while walking on Maine State Route 5 in Lovell, Maine. The accident left him with multiple fractures and a collapsed right lung, requiring five operations in 10 days.
The Dark Tower is an eight-volume epic published between 1978 and 2012. Stephen King includes himself as a character in three of these novels to explore themes of authorship and the relationship between the writer and his creation.