Stephen King

Horrormeister Stephen King made headlines in November 2003 when he won the prestigious Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the U.S. National Book Foundation. The award King received was created in 1998 to honour U.S. authors who are deemed to have contributed to modern literature with their life's work. Some critics lambasted King and the awards committee, claiming the horror writer's popular books weren't literary enough to stand in the company of past award-winners such as Eudora Welty and Philip Roth. Others, such as Pulitzer prize winner Michael Chabon, stood on King's side and lauded his accomplishments. As for King himself, he claimed to have no patience "for those who make a point of pride in saying they have never read anything by John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Mary Higgins Clark or any other popular writer.... What do you think? You get social academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture?" Abebooks boasts a number of signed copies of King's works; the notoriously reclusive writer rarely signs any of his books.

Carrie 1st Edition Books | Signed Books | Reading Copy Hearts in Atlantis 1st edition Books | Signed Books | Reading Copy | Script	The Stand 1st Edition Books | Signed Books | Reading Copy Dark Tower series 1st Edition Books | Signed Books | Reading Copy	The Dark Tower Series of Books The Gunslinger (1982) The Drawing of the Three (1987) The Waste Lands (1991) Wizard and Glass(1997) The Wolves of Calla (2003) Other Selected Novels The Shining (1977) Cujo (1981) Pet Sematary (1983) The Talisman (1984) with Peter Straub It (1986) Misery (1987) The Tommyknockers (1987) Rose Madder (1995) The Green Mile (1996) Bag of Bones (1998) Dreamcatcher (2001) From a Buick 8 (2002) Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2003) Non-Fiction Books Danse Macabre (1981) On Writing (2000) Secret Windows (2000)