Stephen King is a best-selling author, screenwriter, columnist, film producer and director from Portland, Maine. Although best known for his genre novels focused on the supernatural and macabre, many of his later works, especially those written following a serious hit-and-run accident in 1999, abandon horror in favor of more mainstream themes.

On July 29th, The Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead #3 went on sale online and in stores.

1. Bram Stoker Awards: 6
2. Horror Guild Awards: 6
3. Locus Awards: 5
4. World Fantasy Awards: 3
5. Lifetime Achievement Awards: World Fantasy, Horror Writers Association, Canadian Literary Guild
6. National Book Foundation: Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

More than forty motion pictures have been based on works by King, or written for the screen by King. Some notable examples include Carrie, The Shining, Creepshow, Stand by Me, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and Hearts in Atlantis.

1. The Gunslinger (1982)

2. The Drawing of the Three (1987)

3. The Waste Lands (1991)

4. Wizard and Glass (1997)

5. Wolves of the Calla (2003)

6. Song of Susannah (2004)

7. The Dark Tower (2004)

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups

• 1976: Carrie

• 1979: Salem's Lot

• 1980: The Shining

• 1983: Cujo

• 1983: The Dead Zone

• 1984: Firestarter

• 1989: Pet Sematary

• 1990: Misery

• 1993: The Dark Half

• 1993: Needful Things

• 1994: The Shawshank Redemption

• 1995: Dolores Claiborne

• 1999: The Green Mile

• 2007: 1408

• 2007: The Mist

• 2008: Creepshow

• 2008: The Talisman