Stephen King: The Non-Fiction

Stephen King: The Non-Fiction

by Rocky Wood & Justin Brooks


Stephen King: The Non-Fiction is the first significant review of King's

Non-Fiction. Most fans and readers know King has written three non-fiction

books and may have noticed his introductions and Author's Notes to his own

works, but few know of his hundreds of columns, articles, book reviews and

criticism.


In fact the authors review over 560 published works of non-fiction (more

than a dozen are revealed here for the first time) and a further nine

unpublished non-fiction pieces. Full details of these unpublished pieces are

revealed for the first time.


Stephen King: The Non-Fiction fills all the gaps, providing significant

detail on each of the most significant of these Non-Fiction Works; and a

review of every other piece!


Authors Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks spent five years compiling this

outstanding reference work, with the assistance of many of the leading King

researchers, collectors and 'super-collectors'; and access to Restricted

Non-Fiction Works in King's papers at the University of Maine, Orono.


Stephen King: The Non-Fiction reveals for the first time dozens of pieces of

non-fiction and their appearances that were previously unknown to King

researchers.


If you've ever wanted to know more about King's amazing and often

controversial non-fiction, this is the reference work you must have. This is

the ultimate volume to accompany Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished --

and this is the perfect companion in your collection for The Stephen King

Universe and The Road to the Dark Tower.


Among new pieces reviewed in the book are:


o Two previously unknown King pieces from his high school days - sports

reporting in the Lisbon Enterprise (these are not the articles King

describes in On Writing); and a King non-fiction piece from his high school

newspaper The Drum; along with the fascinating story of their rediscovery by

the authors


o    A 1967 column supporting the US troops in Vietnam


o    Previously unknown pieces from The Maine Campus, such as a review of

the Spring 1969 issue of Ubris (in which King published the first version of

Night Surf, the precursor to The Stand); an amazing movie review; and

letters to the editor (many highly amusing)


o    Nine unpublished pieces of non-fiction reviewed in detail, including

pieces held in the Restricted Boxes of King's papers at the University of

Maine - for the first time anywhere the authors describe these works in

detail


o    A large number of previously unknown letters to the editor


o    Introductions to the work of other authors; and book reviews published

in unusual venues


o    Comprehensive reviews of King's non-fiction in the Bangor Daily News

and other Maine newspapers, some of it controversial


o    King's early baseball writing, most published in Maine newspapers


o Working from the original sources Wood and Brooks also identified and

corrected numerous errors in the previous reporting of material - incorrect

titles, dates, pagination and even publication information