Stephen King’s Net Worth

Short introduction

Stephen King is the writer of various novels, most of whom exist in the horror genre. The books have sold more than 400 million copies and are available in more than 50 different languages. He is considered one of the most commercially successful writers.

Early life

In 1947 he was born in Portland, Maine, the state where he was still alive today. When he was two years old, the father left the family. Raised in bad conditions, he often has the opportunity to watch science fiction and fantasy films in theaters. This forms his writing from an early age. He is said to have written his first story at the age of seven. He first published a story in the Comics Review magazine when he was 19 years old. After his school, he studied English at the University of Maine from 1966 to 1970, where he met his future wife, whom he married in 1971. He then worked as an English teacher in Hampden, also in Maine. However, because this income is not enough to support his family, he also works as an ironer in laundry at night. However, he managed to write a short story further in his strict free time. Apart from some of the sale of these stories, it is still some time before his breakthrough and commercially successful writers. He won this with the novel “Carrie”, which he actually wanted to throw away. However, his wife persuaded him to complete the work. Finally Stephen King can sell the novel for $ 400,000.

Career highlights

The novels -Novel “Shining”, “ES” and “Cujo” are probably the most famous in the whole world, with almost all of his works achieved big sales. Many novels are also made into films, although King is not always happy with adaptation, which especially happens by shining. But this film, which returns to King’s novel, is also a success throughout the world. If you look back at all of his careers, you might be able to mention his biggest success not in a prolonged creative crisis for decades – also never fell in love with his listener.

Amazing facts

Stephen King is a very large baseball fan and especially Boston Red Sox. He has had two seasons tickets for himself and his wife since the 1980s.

In some films where the book is filmed, Stephen King has a cameo appearance, in 2019 there will be more than 10 different.

Stephen King appeared several times as him in the TV series “The Simpsons”.