In Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, the Shawshank prison cellblock where incarcerated protagonists Red and Andy live was constructed in the 1930s under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In his 70s, Stephen King is still an active writer, having published two separate novels in 2022. His two sons, Joseph and Owen King, are novelists publishing under the pseudonym Joe Hill, Joseph King has also won awards for his horror and fantasy works. Stephen King has a daughter and two sons. Both a critically acclaimed and a popular writer, Stephen King has received a National Medal of Arts and a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters as well as multiple Bram Stoker Awards, Horror Guild Awards, Locus Awards, and World Fantasy Awards, among other honors. For example, his novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1982)-adapted by director Frank Darabont into the Oscar-nominated film The Shawshank Redemption (1994)-is a realist work. Though known primarily as a horror writer, King has also written works of fantasy, science fiction, and realism. From 1977 to 2007, he published seven novels under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman. Stephen King has published more than 60 novels since Carrie, including influential horror works such as The Shining (1977), Pet Sematary (1983), It (1986), and Misery (1987). In 1976, the director Brian De Palma made a successful film adaptation of Carrie starring Sissy Spacek after the film was released, the novel entered the New York Times bestseller list. He published his first novel, the horror story Carrie, in 1974. in English from the University of Maine, where he also met his future wife, novelist Tabitha (Spruce) King. His first story, “The Glass Floor,” was published in 1967 in the magazine Startling Mystery Stories. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.Stephen King was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.
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Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, this modern classic was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and is among the most beloved films of all time. Originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons (alongside “The Body,” “Apt Pupil,” and “The Breathing Method”), it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994.
Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption-about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.Ī mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again.
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