STEPHEN KING SCAVENGER HUNT – 10 POINTS
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1. When and where was he born?
2. Who was he raised by?
3. How many siblings does he have? Please name.
4. What happened to his father?
5. Why did his mom move the family back to Maine?
6. What was his first experiences writing?
7. Where did he meet his wife? (be specific!) Her name? How long have they been married?
8. How many kids? Grandkids?
9. What was his major in college?
10. In 1973 Doubleday and Co. accepted a novel by King. What was it? How much of an advance did he receive for it?
11. What job was he able to leave to become a writer full-time?
12. Name four (of many) fears Stephen King has.
13. Name five of his books.
14. Name five books that have been turned into movies.
15. Name five famous actors/actresses that have starred in a Stephen King book-adapted movie.
King said in an interview in 1988: "I have a sense of injustice that came, I think ... My mother was a single parent. Her husband deserted her when I was 2, and she went through a lot of menial jobs. We were the little people. We were dragged from pillar to post, and there was none of this equal opportunity stuff going on at that time. We were latchkey kids before there were latchkey kids, and she was a female wage earner when, basically, women did work and cleaned up other people's messes. And she never complained about it a lot. But I wasn't dumb and I wasn't blind. And I got a sense of who was being taken advantage of and who was lording it over the other people. A lot of that sense of injustice stayed. It stuck with me, and it's still in the books today."