STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all world wide bestsellers. His recent titles include The Institute, which was described by the Sunday Express as a 'masterpiece', The Outsider (voted winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best Mystery and Thriller 2018), and If It Bleeds. Many of his titles have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including IT, 'a book which speaks to everybody' (Guardian), Stand By Me and The Green Mile. King is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
America's greatest living novelist - Lee Child Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains one of [King's] most deeply humane and hopeful works of fiction - Variety Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat . . . King's imagination is vast. He knows how to engage the deepest sympathies of his readers . . . one of the great storytellers of our time - Guardian [An] incomparable ability to find the epic in the ordinary - Michael Chabon