Saturday Evening Post, March 1st, 1993
The Stephen King Story
by George Beahm 330 pages, Andrews and McMeel, $9.95
The Maestro of the Macabre
One night during the early 1950s, little Stephen King noticed a stack of used paperback books piled alongside the family TV set. When he asked his mother, a single woman raising two boys, why she had bought them, she replied that, for her, they were "a pile of cheap, sweet vacations" from the 45-50 hour workweeks she was forced to endure in various dead-end jobs.
Today, Stephen King's "vacations" are hardly sweet--nor are they cheap (his latest, Dolores Claiborne, lists at $23.50). Neve...
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