Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 01/22/2008
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.32lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.50w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9781416552512
Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 31
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 121106 / Duma Key
Award: Bram Stoker Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2007 pg. 110
Publishers Weekly 12/10/2007 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2007 pg. 1261
Library Journal 01/15/2008 pg. 84
Booklist 12/01/2007 pg. 4
Time 01/28/2008 pg. 114
People Weekly 01/28/2008 pg. 57
Entertainment Weekly 01/25/2008 pg. 74
New York Times Book Review 03/02/2008 pg. 9
Publishers Weekly Best Books 03/23/2009 pg. 18
About the Author
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.