This encyclopedic king-sized reference covers every nook and cranny of the prolific author's career--as a writer, screenwriter, actor, and popular cult figure. Drawing on nearly 25 years of work, Stephen King from A to Z is the final word on things King, portraying the writer who has sold a quarter-billion copies worldwide of his books since 1974.
Did you know that the Bangor West All Stars was the Little League team on which King's son Owen played (King being an assistant coach), ultimately winning the Maine State Little League Championship (11-8) in 1989, and that the team's ascent to glory is recounted in great detail in Nightmares & Dreamscapes' "Head Down?" That Cavalier is a cheesecake magazine in which King first sold "Graveyard Shift"? That King believes Hell House by Richard Matheson might be the scariest haunted-house novel ever written? These and hundreds more Stephen King-related entries await the King enthusiast in George Beahm's literary and biographical encyclopedia. Drawing on years of Stephen King expertise (Beahm wrote the Stephen King Companion, The Stephen King Story, and Stephen King: America's Best-Loved Boogeyman), Beahm has larded his encyclopedia with detailed information on King's stories, books, and films, as well as quotes that give King's take on everything from fame to censorship to authors he admires and deplores. There are photographs (75), illuminated letters (26), a couple dozen essays on topics such as Maine, Philtrum Press (King's publisher), and King's movies, and trivia such as the amount of prize money King won in a college English department contest ($69.81) and the name of King's childhood dog (Queenie). The potential quality of life for Stephen King aficionados has just significantly improved. --Stephanie Gold
Customer Reviews:
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Stephen King A+++:
This book is quite informative. Everything is in alphabetical order & easy to find. I use it as a reference to his books that I have read. I really enjoy this purchase. And would recommend it to others.
A note from the author:
This book is not, as one reader/reviewer put it, a biography; he was undoubtedly confusing THIS book with my biography on King, "Stephen King: America's Best-Loved Boogeyman." This book fills in the holes, so to speak, with detailed information from A to Z about the people, places and things in King's life, not his fiction; there's a difference--the latter is a concordance, and has already been ably compiled by the prolific Stephen J. Spignesi. My book draws on my extensive files on King that I've compiled... more info
This Is The best biography I've read:
I read this book in 3 days and found it to be the most interetsing and fun biographies I've read. I'm A big fan Stephen king and this book told me the story behind Kings life. George Beahm did a Great job of telling the story. If your a Stephen King fan get this book you won't regret it.
