Sunday 21 August 2011

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is known for his horror novels. When he was little, he saw his friend, who was trapped in the rails, hit by a train and killed. This inspired him with his dark creations.

King started writing when he was a child. In school, he wrote and sold stories to his friends, but his teachers forced him to return the money, so he started to send his stories to magazines. These rejected his stories. His first published story was included in the Comics Magazine Review. The original title was "I was Teenage Grave Robber", but it was changed by the editor to "Half-World of Terror".

Since finishing college with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a certificate to teach in high school, Stephen taught English at Hampden Academy. During this period, he and his family lived in a trailer. He wrote short stories (mostly published in men's magazines) to meet the needs of his family. King began to have alcohol problems, which he had for a decade.

During this period, he began to write more novels. One of his first ideas was a young woman with psychic powers, but he threw it away. His  wife rescued the work and encouraged him to finish the novel. After finish it, he called it "Carrie" and sent to the publisher Doubleday, but over time and forgot about it. Later, he received a bid for $2,500 advance. Shortly after, the value of the rights of Carrie were sold for $400,000.

He published "The Tommyknockers", and after, his family and friends started to help him with his addictions.









Saturday 13 August 2011

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney is known only as Mary Higgins Clark. She is a mystery novels' writer from the  United States. Clark began writing when she was very young.

She spent many years working as a secretary and editor, and later she worked as a stewardess on the Pan American Airlines. Then, she stopped working to get married. While she was married, she wrote short stories for earn money. When her husband died in 1959, Clark started to work writing dialogues of four minutes, until her agent conviced her to try writing novels.

Until 2008, Clark wrote twenty-seven thrillers, which have sold over eighty-five million copies in the U.S.A.

Clark is known as "The Queen of Suspense"