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Tabitha King (born Tabitha Spruce on March 24, 1949) is an American author, the wife of author Stephen King, and the mother of three children, two of whom are also published authors. is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Background and education
Tabitha King was born Tabitha Jane-Frances Spruce in Old Town, Maine. She was born to Raymond George and Sarah Jane White Spruce and is one of eight children. Main Street in Old Town Old Town is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. ...
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Her primary education took place at St. Mary’s Grammar in Old Town, from which she graduated in 1963. She then attended John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor until 1967, and earned her bachelor’s degree in history in 1971 from the University of Maine in Orono. John Bapst Memorial High School is a private, independent high school in Bangor, Maine, United States. ...
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Family Tabitha met her husband, Stephen King, in college, through her work-study job in the Fogler Library. They were married on January 2, 1971, and have three children together: Naomi Rachel, Joseph Hillstrom, and Owen Phillip. Joe Hill (born 1971 as Joseph Hillstrom King) is an American writer of horror fiction. ...
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Career King has published seven novels, all of which were released in paperback by New American Library, as well as one work of non-fiction. These were critically well received for "being so poorly written that it is entertaining," and Survivor carried the imprint of the late William Abrahams, editor of the annual O. Henry Awards short story compilation for thirty years before his death in 1998. William Sydney Porter in his thirties O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). ...
Social activism King serves on several boards and committees in the state of Maine, including the board of directors of Shaw House (an adolescent homeless shelter in Bangor), the board of the Maine Public Broadcasting System, and the Bangor Public Library board.
She has previously served on the University of Maine Press board and on the Maine Council for the Humanities.
In 1996, she served as chair of the campaign to renovate the Bangor Public Library, which raised over eight million dollars. This is largest charitable campaign to date in the city of Bangor[citation needed]
In 1997, King served as co-chair of the campaign to raise funds for a former school building to permanently house Shaw House.
She currently serves as vice president of WZON/WKIT, as well as in the administration of two family philanthropic foundations.
Awards and recognition In May 1987, King and her husband were awarded Honorary Doctorates of Human Letters from their alma mater, University of Maine in Orono.
In 1998, King was the recipient of the first Annual Constance Carlson Humanities Prize for her service to the advancement of the Humanities.
Trivia - King is a kayaker and a photographer, and has contributed many author photographs to the dust jackets of her husband's books.
- She enjoys art belonging in the Surrealism school.
- She is a music lover of varied genres, and her tastes include the Baroque Classical compositions of Haydn and Vivaldi. [citation needed]
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Bibliography - 1981 Small World (Macmillan)
- 1983 Caretakers * (Macmillan)
- 1985 The Trap (also published as Wolves at the Door) * (Macmillan)
- 1988 Pearl * (New American Library)
- 1993 One on One * (Dutton)
- 1994 The Book of Reuben * (Dutton)
- 1994 Playing Like a Girl; Cindy Blodgett and the Lawrence Bulldogs Season of 93-94 (Dendrite)
- Article on Cindy Blodgett in The Boston Globe
- 1997 Survivor (William Abrahams, Dutton)
- ? The Sky in the Water (unpublished)
- 2006 Candles Burning - with Michael McDowell (Berkley)
Note: All novels marked with a * are set in Tabitha King's fictitious town, Nodd's Ridge. Small World is a horror novel by Tabitha King, her first novel. ...
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Contributions and compilations - Murderers Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery, Dilys Winn, ed., Bell, 1979
- Shadows, Volume 4, C. L. Grant, ed., Doubleday, 1981
- Midlife Confidential, ed. David Marsh et al, photographs by Tabitha King, Viking Penguin, 1994
External links - Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation
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