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.

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. 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). The book spawned a 1983 film adaptation as well as a television series.Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes 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. The Dead Zone is King's seventh novel and the fifth under his own name. THE DEAD ZONE by Stephen King RELEASE DATE: Aug. The TV series Castle Rock takes place in this fictional town and makes references to the Strangler whom Johnny helped track down in The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is the first story by King to feature the fictional town of Castle Rock, which serves as the setting for several later stories and is referenced in others. The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. The book was nominated for the Locus Award in 1980 and was dedicated to King's son Owen. Though earlier King books were successful, The Dead Zone was the first of his novels to rank among the ten best-selling novels of the year in the United States.

'There was only blackness and that universal emptiness. When some information is blocked from his perception, Johnny refers to that information as being trapped in the part of his brain that is permanently damaged, 'the dead zone.' The novel also follows a serial killer in Castle Rock, and the life of rising politician Greg Stillson, both of whom are evils Johnny must eventually face. Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. The Stand offers us a surrealistic allegory of good and evil in the modern world, and the unwanted gift of clairvoyance simply forces the hero of The Dead Zone to confront the problems of. Stephen Kings 1 New York Times bestseller about a reluctant clairvoyant who must weigh his options when he suddenly sees the terrible future awaiting mankind. The story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain damage, now experiences clairvoyant and precognitive visions triggered by touch.

The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979.

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