But it was a chance to observe their behaviors, and their emotional makeup. I mean, I sort of strip-mined my kids-not in terms of their actual lives, I never did that kind of literary fiction thing where you have a thinly disguised character who's actually in your life. You know, that's a mean way to put it, but there's some truth to it. She's not Charlie, but she helped me to help Charlie be herself.” You've told me before having kids was kind of like having an ant farm that you could study. In the author's note at the end of Firestarter you say, “to my daughter Naomi, who brightens up everything and helped me to understand-as much as any man can-what it is to be a young, intelligent girl approaching the age of 10. Your own three kids helped inspire some of your child characters. It stars Ryan Kiera Armstrong as young Charlie McGee and Zac Efron as her protective father, whose own telepathic ability to “push” people into doing things is gradually killing him. With a new Firestarter debuting in theaters and on the Peacock streaming service, the author is weighing in with his thoughts. (Or, at least, to roast those who have it coming.) That 1980 novel about an extraordinary little girl on the run from government agents who want to weaponize her, combined some of King’s favorite themes: a child learning to manage hidden strengths, a defiant mistrust of authority, and a twisted yearning to see the world burn.
King gets much more flamboyant in his fiction, with characters who channel fear, anger, or sorrow into all-consuming infernos in everything from Carrie to The Stand to his most iconic tale of pyrokinesis: Firestarter. If lost in the woods, like a Jack London character craving light and heat, all the author could do to ignite a blaze is reach into his pockets and hope for the best. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.Stephen King can’t tell you how to actually start a fire. 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. 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).
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. Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.
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