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As Stephen King recalled the origin of his debut novel, Carrie: "Two unrelated ideas, adolescent cruelty and telekinesis, came together." It began as a short story intended for Cavalier ; Stephen tossed the first three pages in the trash but Tabitha recovered them, saying she wanted to know what happened next.
He didn't have a ton of faith in the manuscript and gave it to his 8 year old daughter to read. She loved it and nagged him for more, and he used that reaction as a basis for purchasing the book. The whole fished-out-of-the-trash narrative is fiction and exaggeration cobbled together by people who want their stories to sound nice and ehrmagerd, it almost didn't happen!
- A Pair of Writers
- Creating Carrie
- Published at Last
- A Bonafide Hit
There’s a running jokeat the King dinner table that Stephen married Tabby only because she had a typewriter. “That’s only partly true,” King joked in 2003. “I married her because I loved her and because we got on as well out of bed as in it. The typewriter was a factor, though.” Growing up, neither of them had much. When King was two, his father we...
Carrie is the story of Carrie White, a homely highschoolerwho can control objects with her mind. One day during gym class, she starts having her first period. Long sheltered by an oppressively religious mother, Carrie doesn’t know what’s happening to her—she thinks she’s bleeding to death. Bullies taunt and tease Carrie, but the newfound surge of h...
It was fifth period at Hampden Academy, and just as he did during every other fifth period, King was groggily grading papers in the teacher’s lounge, thinking about how nice it would be to take a nap. A voice boomed over the lounge PA system. It was the office secretary. “Stephen King, are you there? Stephen King?” King reached for the intercom and...
Carrie sold over 1 million copies in its first year as a paperback despite a mixed critical response. The New York Times was impressed, considering it was a first novel, while Library Journal called it “terribly overdone.” Falling somewhere in the middle, the critic at the Wilson Library Journalsaid, “It’s pure trash, but I loved it.” Years later, ...
Apr 28, 2024 · Stephen King's inspiration for Carrie came from real life experiences, blending teenage cruelty, telekinesis, and supernatural elements.; Carrie was first inspired by King's time as a janitor at a ...
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Aug 4, 2017 · Stephen King has spent half a century scaring us, but his legacy is so much more than horror. It’s a big year for King adaptations, but the movies only tell part of the story. Aja Romano Aja ...
Jan 23, 2023 · By 1985, King had added an addiction to cocaine to his drinking problem. While on the drug, he would stay up late with his pulse racing dangerously as he wrote. At last, King's wife staged an intervention. Gathering friends and family, Tabitha King confronted the author with his substance abuse and delivered an ultimatum: Get clean or get out.
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Sep 1, 2019 · When his wife Tabitha rescued the start of the manuscript of “Carrie” from the trash and insisted her husband finish it, King was working as an English teacher and writing on the side. Tabitha ...
