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The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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Author Biography

Name: Stephen King
Variant Name: Stephen Edwin King, Richard Bachman, John Swithen
Birth Date: September 21, 1947
Place of Birth: Portland, Maine, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Stephen (Edwin) King
11188 words, approx. 37.3 pages
Stephen King has written twenty-six novels (including five under the pen name Richard Bachman), five collections of short fiction, one book of criticism, six screenplays, and other short works. According to Stephen J. Spignesi in The Shape Under the Shee...
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Biography of Stephen King
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Stephen King (born 1947) is a prolific and immensely popular author of horror fiction. In his works, King blends elements of the traditional gothic tale with those of the modern psychological thriller, detective, and science fiction genres. Stephen King...
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Biography of Stephen King
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Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Two years later, his father, a merchant seaman, went to the grocery store for a pack of cigarettes and never returned. King's mother was...


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The Gunslinger Information
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The novel was inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, which King read as a sophomore at the University of Maine. King explains that he "played with the idea of trying a long romantic novel embodying the feel, if...


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Slow summer for gamers but some new fare
5/22/2007: 704 words, approx. 2 pages
Summer is typically a slow time for hot new video game releases. This year is no different.Gamers looking forward to big brands like "Halo 3" and "Grand Theft Auto IV" will have to wait until this fall and the Thanksgiving-Christmas holidays. That's when the games...
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Wet towns draw binge drinkers
9/6/2007: 1,252 words, approx. 4 pages
Villagers from far-flung Eskimo communities where alcohol is banned regularly pour into this old Gold Rush town and its many bars and liquor stores _ not just to drink, but to get plastered.Day and night, drunks can be seen staggering along Front Street, slumped against...
 


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The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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