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Stephen King Timeline
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On Writing Timeline 1
Library
Publishing
Teaching
The Ringling Brothers Circus Strong-boy
- First memory was being someone else.
- Cinder Block
- Smashed foot
- September 21, 1947 (birthday)
"...I signed a teaching contract for the 1973-1974 academic year."
- Was writing at same time
- Felt like things were going backwards
- Pack of Pall Malls
- At 14 years old, King sent in stories to be published and got many rejections. "By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it." (King 41)
- 1958- Super Duper Electromagnet
- 1959-Ackerman and Famous Monsters of Filmland (story sent to Spaceman)
- University of Maine library job
- Met Tabitha at library
- Met at poetry workshop
- "I fell because she understood what she was doing with it" (King 62).
1970
1960
1950
1980
1940
The Ritz
1950's
- King saw the majority of his cheap horror movies at the Ritz
- "The place to get all of this was not at the Empire...but at the Ritz"(King 45).
- 1967- Pit and the Pendulum (first sold book)
- Stephen king got married in 1970-1971
- Had two children within two years of marriage
- Dunkin' Donuts and laundry
- Harry hooks
- "At least he don't need to wash his hands" (King 70)
1953 - Stephen asks his mom if she had ever seen anyone die and his mom said yes and gave a detailed story of what she witnessed.
1954 - Stephen got multiple needles injected into his ear, which was the most painful experience he ever felt in his life.
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