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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. ... His father, Donald Edwin King, a traveling vacuum salesman after returning from World War II, was born in Indiana with the surname Pollock, changing it to King as an adult. [10] King's mother was Nellie Ruth King (née Pillsbury). [11]

Secretly, I always hoped that Stephen King was the son of my grandfather, Stephen Paul King who was a merchant marine in the 40’s on the Great Lakes. He and Lyna had my mother Linda in 1943 in Ohio. S.P. King came to the USA as a child (formerly Kral or Krall). Still looking for more historical documentation.

When Stephen was only two years old, his father left the house and did not return. His life remained unclear for a long time. Everything became discovered only in the late 1990s. King’s father had built another family and lived nearby with his new wife Helen E. Costa (Mayard Costa King) and their 4 kids. Nellie Ruth King (nee Pillsbury) (mother)

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When he was two years old, his father left the family, leaving his mother to care for Stephen and his older brother, David. She took a series of low-paying jobs to support her children, and as a result the boys saw little of their mother.

Stephen King. Writer: Maximum Overdrive. Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name "King," under which Stephen was born.

King's father, Donald Edwin King, who was born ca. 1913 in Peru, Indiana, was a merchant seaman. King's mother, Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury; March 13, 1913 – December 28, 1973) was born in Scarborough, Maine. They were married July 23, 1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. Stephen King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When King was two years old, his father left the family under ...

Donald Edwin (Pollock) King was the father of author Stephen Edwin King. He was a writer and a literary genius in his own right. _____ from Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 Wm. E. Pollock b. 1888 - d. Oct. 23, 1918 in Peru, IN from United States Social Security Death Index Helen Szczepanski birth: 1 February 1897 ...

Stephen King's father has always been somewhat of a mystery. He reportedly abandoned his family when Stephen was just two years old. Because of this, there appears to be a lot of misinformation regarding his father's parents. Donald Edwin King, Stephen's father, was born as Donald Edwin Pollack, son of William and Helen (Bowden) Pollack.

Stephen King is an American author of horror, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Advertisement He is the son of Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. His father, Donald Edwin King was a traveling vacuum salesman after returning from World War II On July 23, 1939, King’s parents married in Scarborough, Maine. They briefly stayed […]

You know Stephen King as the master of horror, a writer whose work is synonymous with fear, and the brain behind chilling books like It, The Shining, and Pet Sematary - but what drives King to create such terrifying tales? Any Stephen King trivia buff will tell you the key to his craft can be found by looking to his childhood. King grew up with his mother and brother - his father split shortly ...

King's mother tried unsuccessfully to track him down—for child support, if nothing else—but it was a CBS TV crew, making a documentary on Stephen King, who discovered his father had died in 1980, with a whole new family, in a small town five miles outside Bangor, Maine.

Donald Edwin (Pollock) King was the father of author Stephen Edwin King. He was a writer and a literary genius in his own right. Some of the above information came from a segment about Stephen King on PBS program Finding Your Roots, aired on September 23, 2014, narrated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman who was born with the surname Pollock, but changed it to King as an adult. King's mother was Nellie Ruth King (née Pillsbury). His parents were married in Scarborough, Maine, on July 23, 1939.

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ... Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her ...

As Stephen King writes in his 1981 nonfiction book Danse Macabre, his father was a fan of horror and science fiction stories and had himself unsuccessfully tried his hand at writing. The discovery of a box of his father's books, which included a volume by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft , would prove a revelatory moment for King.

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ... brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her ...

Birth name: Stephen Edwin King Father: Donald King Mother: Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury) King Marriage: Tabitha (Spruce) King (January 1971-present) Children: Naomi, Joe and Owen ...

However, Stephen King fought and came back, finishing The Dark Tower Series and making other books like 11/22/63. Stephen King’s Father Was a Writer. Though Stephen Had no idea since he did not know his father, his mother claims there were piles of manuscripts Donald wrote, and none of them ever sold or was published.

Stephen Edwin King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When King was two years old, his father left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes", leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. ...

There's no escaping him.