Stephen King Biography **From Maine to the world's nightmares:** Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine , into a humble family. Since childhood, he demonstrated a fascination with horror stories and writing, devouring comics and creepy stories. His childhood was marked by constant moves and some episodes of poverty, feeding his imagination with the urban legends and mysteries that lurked in each new home. **A precocious writer:** At the age of 12, King was already selling short stories to magazines such as " Startling Mystery Stories ", taking his first steps into the literary world. In 1974, he published his first novel, " Carrie ," which catapulted him to fame and gave him the financial freedom he had always longed for. Since then, he has become one of the most prolific and recognized authors in the world, with more than 80 books published and sales exceeding 350 million cop...