Four Past Midnight

KING, STEPHEN
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.S. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. Stephen made his first short story sale to a mass market men's magazine shortly after his graduation from the University. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel 'Carrie' for publication. 'Carrie' was published in the spring of 1974. Stephen King wrote and directed the movie Maximum Overdrive, in 1985. Creepshow II was released in 1987. Many of his works have been adapted for the screen, including: Carrie, The Dead Zone, The Shining, Christine, 'Salem's Lot, Firestarter, Cujo, Pet Sematary, (for which King wrote the screenplay and had a bit part as a minister), and Misery, as well as several others. The popular movie, Stand By Me, was adapted from his novella, 'The Body' from Different Seasons. In 1992, Sleepwalkers was produced from an original screenplay by King.