Stephen King

Person · Open Library

Born

21 September 1947

Works

606

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1947-09-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

25,239

Total plays

1,450,888

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book Danse Macabre, which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema. He also writes stories outside the horror genre <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,085x

2. Convex Optimization

   · 2004 · cited 40,516x

3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

   · 2021 · cited 27,790x

4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,351x

5. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 22,969x

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Quotes

• “I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”
• “I work until beer o'clock.”
• “French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
• “I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex — a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.”
• “I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me.”
• “President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue [school violence], but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun-lobby and America's love of violent movies while he rains bombs on Yugoslavia, where at least twenty noncombatants have already died for every innocent student at Columbine High. It is like listening to a man with a crack-pipe in his hand lecture children about the evils of drugs.”

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Sports profile

Sport

Soccer

Team

Heart of Midlothian

Position

Left-Back

Nationality

Scotland

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Wikidata facts

Mass

69

Height

173

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