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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Happy Birthday, Stephen King!

Seventy years ago today, in Portland, Maine, one of America’s most successful authors, Stephen King, was born.  If the books written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman are included, King has written almost 70 books!  (I love that King chose this pen name because he was a fan of the Canadian rock band, Bachman Turner Overdrive!)

For the official list of Stephen King’s novels, go to http://stephenking.com/library/novel/.   And in five days, fans can pick up his latest book, written with his son Owen, Sleeping Beauties. 
King’s website gives a short description:  “In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place.  The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?” (http://stephenking.com/p/sleeping-beauties/)

In honour of the prolific author’s special day, BookRiot featured an article entitled

Literary Hub has an article in which twelve writers discuss how King influenced their writing:  http://lithub.com/12-literary-writers-on-stephen-kings-influence/.

Happy birthday, Mr. King!

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