college, Maine. They retained the Center Lovell house as a summer home later on.Stephen and Tabitha have been blessed with three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill, and Owen Phillip.Stephen himself is of a Scots-Irish line. He is six feet four inches tall and weighs close to 200 hundred pounds. At least he was. He weighs considerably less since his accident and multiple surgeries. King is blue eyed, has fair skin, and has raven black hair. He has a bit of white in his beard when he chooses to grow one. He usually grows one between the end of the World Series and the first pitch in grapefruit league competition. On rare occasions he wears a mustache in other seasons of play. King has worn glasses ever since he was a child.C.Facts and Tidbits about Stephen King-When Stephen King was three years old his father went out for cigarettes and never came back.-When he was seven years old he had already written his first short story. He was also a junkie of 50’s horror movies.-When he was a teenager he did normal teenager things. He played football on the team, had his own rock band, and in that time had two of his short stories published.-Tabitha King, also a writer, and Stephen were married the same year that Stephen graduated from college. He found work as an English teacher.-His first novel, CARRIE, would never have seen publication if Stephen’s wife hadn’t have dug the manuscript out of the trash.-Stephen King is today’s most successful writer. He has sold over a hundred million copies of his works and grows each year with his new releases.-He is also the world’s richest writer, making more then eighty-four million dollars in 1996 alone.-Even though King has enjoyed unparallel success he lives with his family in the small town of Bangor, Maine. He takes out two hundred dollars a week for spending money, and in his free time bowls, plays poker, and playing with his friends in the band “Rock Bottom Reminders&...