Stephen King wrote one of his most successful books, Salem's Lot, while staying in a rented summer home with his family and caring for his dying mother.- His first book, Carie, almost never made it to print. His wife pulled it out of the garbage and convinced him to complete it.
- He wrote several books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, allowing him to publish more than one book a year, which was thought at the time to be the maximum amount of writing an author could do.
The Washington Post on 11/22/63: A Novel
He is, instead, offering a tale richly layered with the pleasures we’ve come to expect: characters of good heart and wounded lives, whose adventures into the fantastic are made plausible because they are anchored in reality, in the conversations and sense of place that take us effortlessly into the story.
