Lisey's Story

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.   His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly  (a New York Times  Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties  (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders  Keepers,   and Mr. Mercedes  (an Edgar Award winner  for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63  was named a top ten book of 2011 by The  New York Times  Book Review  and won the Los Angeles Times  Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter  are the basis for  major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient  of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the  2014 National Medal of Arts, and the  2003 National Book Foundation Medal for  Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.   He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife,   novelist Tabitha King.