He had perhaps one year left, perhaps three. And his death might come at any time now, because he had grown old, and his heart was failing. The result was a very mediocre King he doubted if he would be remembered long after he was dead. He also tried very hard to do great works, but, unfortunately, he didn’t succeed so well at that. He tried very hard not to do anyone great evil and mostly succeeded. Roland the Good was neither the best nor the worst King ever to rule the land.
Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of Kings, perhaps even thousands when time goes on long enough, not even historians can remember everything. Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons.
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). 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.
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