Stephen King

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qualified to teach at the high school level. As a student Stephen worked at the Folger Library, which was on the University of Maine at Orono’s campus. While working he met a fellow employee named Tabitha Spruce, who he married in Janurary 1971. ’s first publication was a short story he wrote and sent to a men’s magazine. This is where his first profit from writing came from, throughout the few years after his graduation he worte stories and sold them to men’s magazines. All of these short stories would be later gathered into a collection known as the "Night Shift collection." In the fall of ‘71 King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy, a public high school in Hampden, Maine. He still found time to write short stories and work on his novel on the weekends and evenings. King’s first big break came on the spring of 1973 upon the acceptence of Doubleday & Co. to publish ’s novel Carrie. After learning from his new editor, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale ...

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