![]() ![]() He also wrote his first full-length manuscript, "The Aftermath," while still in high school. King published his first short story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber" in Comics Review in 1965. She later encouraged King to send his work to publishers, but her death from cancer in 1973 occurred before King achieved his enormous success as an author. King had a close relationship with his mother, who supported the family with a series of low-paying jobs and read to him often as a child. His family then moved to various other cities, eventually returning to Durham permanently in 1958. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONÄ«orn in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, King moved to Durham, Maine, at the age of two with his mother and brother when his father, a U.S. In 2004 King's text was adapted, re-designed, and illustrated as a cardboard "pop-up" book titled The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Pop-Up Stephen King. While many critics have taken issue with King's adult canon, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, generally received a warm reception from the children's literature critical community, who named the novel a Young Adult Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 2000. King's story of girl-versus-nature, written for both adult and young-adult readers, takes place in a ruggedly realist setting, while including elements of the classic fairy tale. Trisha McFarland, the novel's heroine, learns to survive alone in the wilderness, fearing all the while that she is being stalked by a nameless and terrifying "God of the Lost." Trisha derives her strength and will to survive from contemplating her idol-Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon-as she listens to the baseball game on her radio, her only connection to the civilized world. The macabre tale describes the eight-day ordeal of a nine-year-old girl lost in the woods of Maine and New Hampshire. Though King has become known as the "Master" of modern horror fiction-a title confirmed by his status as one of the most prolific and popular authors of the twentieth century-he has published a select few works intended for younger readers, most notably, his 1999 juvenile novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. The following entry presents criticism on King's juvenile novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) through 2004. (Full name Stephen Edwin King has also written under the pseudonyms Richard Bachman, John Swithen, and Eleanor Druse) American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, essayist, and author of juvenile novels. ![]()
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