History
King was born in 1949 in Old Town, Maine. She attended college at the University of Maine at Orono, where she met her husband Stephen King through her work-study job in the Raymond H. Fogler Library. The two married on January 7, 1971. King had her first child, Naomi Rachel, in 1970. She gave birth to Joseph Hillstrom King in 1972 and Owen Phillip King in 1977.
King's first novel, Small World, was published in 1981 by Signet Books. She has published eight novels and two works of non-fiction. In 2006 she published Candles Burning through Berkley Books. The book was predominantly written by Michael McDowell, with the McDowell family requesting that King finish the work.
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