Oct 13, 2026
Author Spotlight: Stephen King — The King of Horror Who Made Fear an American Story
A deep dive on Stephen King — the Portland-born novelist, born 21 September 1947, who turned his mother's box of cheap horror paperbacks into Carrie (1974), The Shining, The Stand, It, Misery and the seven-volume Dark Tower, sold more than 350 million copies, survived a near-fatal road accident in 1999 and turned sobriety into a writing manual; winner of the National Book Foundation Medal (2003) and the National Medal of Arts (2014), and the name behind Netflix's Steinbeck moment and Prime Video's eight-part Carrie in October 2026; his five defining lines on the chase, on getting busy living, on books as portable magic, on reading and writing a lot, and on talent being cheaper than table salt.