
Stephen King
Department: Writing
Biography
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. He is widely known for his horror novels and has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has also explored other genres: suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections. His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror. Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone and Christine (both 1983), Stand by Me(1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and It (2017). He has also published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000). Among other awards, he has won the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller for 11/22/63 (2011). He has also won honours for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities." Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen King, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Golden Years
1991

Knightriders
1981

Creepshow
1982

Creepshow 2
1987

King on Screen
2023

Stuck in Love
2013

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999

Stephen King's World of Horror
1986

Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune
2000

Gotham Cafe
2005

The Timekeepers of Eternity
2021

Walking the Mile
2014

Maximum Overdrive
1986

101 Seconds
2018

Fever Pitch
2005

Thinner
1996

Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
1987

A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King
2011

George Romero's Golden Tales 2
1995

Chain Reactions
2025

The Rock Bottom Remainders
1992

Stephen King's World of Horror
1989

Meister des Grauens - Thomas Gottschalk präsentiert Stephen King
2014

Pet Sematary
1989

Stephen King: Master of Horror
2018

Sleepwalkers
1992

It Chapter Two
2019

Die Stephen King Story
2019

Diary of the Dead
2007

The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
2000

The King: Stephen King's America
2019

Stephen King: A Necessary Evil
2020

Unlocking Rose Red: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
2002

My Father, the BTK Killer
2025

The Simpsons
1989

Sons of Anarchy
2008

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
2004

The Daily Show
1996

The Shining
1997

Today
1952

Jeopardy!
1984

Finding Your Roots
2012

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

The Stand
1994

The View
1997

Under the Dome
2013

The Langoliers
1995

Frasier
1993

Storm of the Century
1999

Rose Red
2002

100 Scariest Movie Moments
2004

Duncanville
2020

Baseball
1994

The View
1997

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Markus Lanz
2008

Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018

Morgenmagazin
1992

Golden Years
1991