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Since Stephen King's wife fished his first novel Carrie out of the waste paper basket, King has written more than 50 books. But who is the man behind those tales of horror, grief, and the supernatural? Where do these ideas come from? And what drives him to keep writing at a breakneck pace after a thirty year career? His impoverished childhood in rural Maine hardly spelled out the likelihood of a blossoming literary career. At the age of four he saw a neighbouring boy get hit by a freight train. At 13, he was sent to his grandmother's room to wake her but instead found her cold, lifeless body. However, his local Bookmobile which visited every week allowed him to take out Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft and he ran through the classics of horror.