mmar school in Durham and then high school in Lisbon Falls High School, from where King graduated in 1966. He attended college at the University of Maine in Orono, and in his sophomore year he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, The Maine Campus. In addition to that he was very active in student politics as a members of the Student Senate. Eventually he came to be a avid supporter of the antiwar movement on the Orono campus, coming to a conclusion that the war in Vietnam was “unconstitutional”He graduated from college in 1970 with a B.S. in English and to this day is qualified to teach high school English. When the army looked at him a draft board examination that was taken right after graduation found him “4-F” because he had high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and to top that all off he had a pair of punctured ear drums to boot. In the winter of 1971 he married a woman by the name of Tabitha Spruce.They met in the Fogler Library at the University of Maine, where they were both employed as students. At first Stephen was unable to find work as a teacher so they had to live off his earnings as a laborer and her student loan and savings. Every now and again they would get a little extra money from a short story sale to a magazine.He made his first short story sale to a “men’s” magazine very shortly after graduation. In the beginning of his marriage to Tabitha he continued to sell short stories to magazines. Later on some of these would be brought into a collection of short stories called Night Shift or other such short story novellas, like Skeleton Crew, of Nightmares and Dreamscapes. In 1971, Stephen got a teaching position at Hampden Academy. He taught English Classes. But he continued to produce short stories, and begin writing novels in his evenings and weekends. I imagine this was the time he finished writing the book that would make him famous. Carrie. It was the spri...
