Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

America’s greatest living novelist - Lee Child

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains one of [King’s] most deeply humane and hopeful works of fiction - Variety

Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat … King’s imagination is vast. He knows how to engage the deepest sympathies of his readers … one of the great storytellers of our time - Guardian

[An] incomparable ability to find the epic in the ordinary - Michael Chabon

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His crime thrillers featuring Holly Gibney include Mr Mercedes, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, and The Outsider, both of which were adapted into successful TV series, as well as Finders Keepers, End of Watch and the title story from If It Bleeds.

Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb’s top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, 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 Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.