Considered the "King of Terror", Stephen King (Portland, Maine, 1947), was born into a family marked by the abandonment of his father when he was only two years old, Stephen King grew up with his brother David and his mother Ruth between Maine, Indiana or Connecticut.

He is one of the greatest bestselling writers of the 20th century, with over 350 million books sold, making him an icon of contemporary literature.

King's rising success coincided with his numerous problems with alcohol and drugs, addictions reflected in characters like Jack Torrance, the lead writer of The Shining (1977). Luckily, the author decided to do a full cleanup throughout the 1980s.

With works such as The Mystery of Salem's Lost (1975), The Dance of Death (1978), The Dead Zone (1979), Cujo (1981), Animal Cemetery (1983), It (1986) or Misery (1987), Stephen King can boast one of the strongest literary trajectories of his generation, because in addition to the million-dollar sales of his novels, many of them such as Carrie, The Shining, Misery, Life imprisonment or the recent It became ambitious film productions.