Author

Books by Stephen King

Stephen King is one of the best-selling authors of all time, having published more than sixty novels, two hundred short stories, and numerous works of nonfiction under his own name and the pseudonym Richard Bachman. He has sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. Born in Portland, Maine, he began writing in childhood and published his first novel, Carrie, in 1974 after his wife retrieved it from the trash. On Writing, published in 2000 and begun before and completed after a near-fatal accident, is his only book specifically about craft and process.