Owen King

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Owen Philip King (born February 21, 1977 in Bangor , Maine ) is an American writer .

life and work

Owen King is the youngest of Stephen and Tabitha King's three children and brother of Joe Hill . He lives in Upstate New York with his wife, the writer Kelly Braffet . The avid baseball fan, he studied at Vassar College and Columbia University , where he earned a Masters in Fine Arts.

King's first book publication was a collection consisting of a novella and short stories , some of which were first published in magazines. For his texts he was awarded the John Gardner Award for Short Fiction from Binghamton University .

Double Feature , his first novel, was published in 2014, but has not yet been translated into German.

King wrote his second novel Sleeping Beauties with his father.

Trivia

In his childhood, King was enthusiastic about the characters in the GI Joe series . The manufacturer Hasbro then named one of the characters after him. Stephen King dedicated the poem "For Owen" to his son, which appeared in the short story collection Skeleton Crew (1985), German Blood (1992).

Publications

Books
  • We're All in This Together , Bloomsbury 2005
    • The true President of America , transl. Thomas Haufschild, Berlin: Rütten & Loening 2006, ISBN 978-3-352-00730-9
  • Double Feature , Scribner 2013
  • Sleeping Beauties (with Stephen King), Scribner 2017
Comic
  • Intro to Alien Invasion , with Mark Jude Poirier, illustration by Nancy Ahn, 2015
editor
  • Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories (with John McNally), Free Press 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information about Kelly Braffet on her website
personal data
SURNAME King, Owen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Owen Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangor (Maine)