ng of 1973 when Doubleday and Co. took the novel known as Carrie for publication. On Mother’s day of that very year his new editor, Bill Thompson, told him that his major paperback sale would get him a way to leave teaching and to become a full time writer.B. The Books The Made him FamousWhat follows is more on Stephens Kings life. But now we will see mention of the books that got him started and have had a lot to do with the success of Stephen King. So we pick things up still in the year 1973. After living in or around Bangor, Maine, since their marriage, the Kings decided to move to southern Maine because of the ill condition of Stephen’s mother at the end of the summer of 1973. They ended up having to rent a summer home on Sebago Lake near North Windham for the winter. There Stephen wrote his second novel. Originally it was titled THE SECOND COMING, and then he changed it to JERUSALEM’S LOT. That didn’t stick either, but finally he decided to call it SALEM’S LOT. He wrote it in the garage of his summer home. Also during this time his mother died at the age of 59 due to cancer.While Doubleday had accepted Carrie in 1973 it didn’t get published until the fall of 1974. During that fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. Boulder would play an important role in many of King’s books. While there Stephen wrote THE SHINING, set in Colorado. Also King had a good part of THE STAND happen right on Boulder Colorado. In 1975 the Kings returned to Maine, and they purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. At this house Stephen would complete THE STAND and another novel called THE DEAD ZONE.In 1977, the Kings went on a three-month stay in England, and returned home in mid-December. They bought a home in Center Lovell, Maine. They had lived there one summer when they decided to move north to Orrington, which is near Bangor, so Stephen could teach a creative writing class at his old ...
