American novelist and short-story writer, whose enormously popular books revived the interest in horror fiction from the 1970s. King's place in modern horror fiction can be compared to that of J.R.R. Tolkien's who created the modern genre of fantasy. Like Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens or Balzac in his La Comédie Humaine, King has expressed the characteristic concerns of his era, and used the horror genre as his own branch of artistic expression. King has underlined, that even in the world of cynicism, despair, and cruelties, it remains possible for individuals to find love and discover unexpected resources in themselves and conquer their own problems and malevolent powers that would suppress or destroy them.

Stephen King:
Author of the following books and novels:
The Green Mile, Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gorden, Hearts in Atlantis, Riding the Bullet, The Plant, Dark Tower 3, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Tommyknockers, Dolans Cadillac, plus more than forty Stephen King works and bestsellers.

Further reading: Stephen King: The Fist Decade by Jospeh Reino (1988); The Stephen King Companion, ed. George W. Beahm (1989); Stephen King: Man and Artits by Carroll F. Terrell (1990); The Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia (1991); Stephen King: The Second Decade by Tony Magistrale (1992); The Films of Stephen King by Ann Lloyd (1993); Stephen King's America by Jonathan P. Davis (1994); The Work of Stephen King: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide by Michael R. Collings (1996); Stephen King: A Critical Companion by Sharon A. Russell (1996); Speaking of Murder, ed. by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg (1998)