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  1. Aug 29, 2024 · Stephen King Delivers A Blunt And Funny Response To His Early Critics After more than 50 years as a published novelist, Stephen King has left an undeniable and indelible impact on the literary world.

  2. Jun 13, 2018 · Writing in the Boston Globe, the so-called dean of American literary critics declared it “extraordinary, another low in the shocking process ofdumbingdownourculturallife.”DescribingKingas“animmensely inadequate writer,” though Bloom thought even that was “perhaps too kind,” he concluded that the only reason that explained the ...

  3. Jun 15, 2022 · Stephen King’s Twitter reply concerned a somewhat similar experience he had, only his critic was a bit more upfront with their analysis. In his words: In his words: Early in my career, I spotted ...

    • Nick Venable
  4. Oct 11, 2013 · What Stephen King Isn’t. One summer, when I was nine or ten, I inherited a few thousand science-fiction and horror paperbacks from a friend of my mother’s. Over the next few months, in our ...

    • Joshua Rothman
  5. Although he was dismissed by critics for much of his career—one New York Times review called King “a writer of fairly engaging and preposterous claptrap”—his writing has received greater recognition in recent years, and in 2003 he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. King has also been honored for his devoted efforts to ...

  6. Oct 31, 2014 · At his best, King is a masterful storyteller. He is able to create worlds infused with a sense of right and wrong, good and evil. He writes of familiar family crises, fears of the unknown and the ...

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  8. Mar 22, 2024 · In 1974, Stephen King published his first book, "Carrie". But 50 years on, critics still debate if his work deserves a place in the literary canon.