Tabitha King

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Tabitha King
Born Tabitha Jane Spruce
(1949-03-24) March 24, 1949 (age 75)
Old Town, Maine, United States
Occupation Author, Activist
Genre Horror, fantasy, science fiction
Spouse Stephen King (m. 1971)
Children Naomi King
Joe King
Owen King

Tabitha Jane King (née Spruce; born March 24, 1949) is an American author and activist.[1][2][3] She is married to writer Stephen King.[4]

Personal life

King is the eldest daughter of Sarah Jane Spruce (née White) (7 December 1923 - 14 April 2007) [5] and Raymond George Spruce (29 December 1923 - 29 May 2014).[6] King attended college at The University of Maine, where she met her husband Stephen King through her work-study job in the Raymond H. Fogler Library. The two married on January 7, 1971.[7] King had her first child, Naomi Rachel King, in 1970. She gave birth to Joseph Hillstrom King in 1972 and Owen Phillip King in 1977.[8]

As of 2006, King has published eight novels and two works of non-fiction.[9][10] She published her first novel, Small World, through Signet Books in 1981[11] and her most recent book, Candles Burning through Berkley Books in 2006.[12][13] Candles Burning was predominantly written by Michael McDowell, who died in 1999, and the McDowell family requested that King finish the work.[14]

Social activism

King has served on several boards and committees in the state of Maine, such as the Bangor Public Library board.[15] She also served on the board of the Maine Public Broadcasting System until 1994,[16] and has received a Constance Carlson award for her work with literacy for the state of Maine.[17]

She currently serves as vice president of WZON/WZLO/WKIT as well as in the administration of two family philanthropic foundations.[15]

Awards and recognition

  • Honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters, University of Maine in Orono (May 1987)[18]
  • Dowd Achievement Award (1992)[19]
  • Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize (1998)[17][20]

Reception and criticism

Reception to King's work has been mixed to positive.[21][22][23] Pearl received positive mentions from the Los Angeles Times and the Bangor Daily Times,[24][25] while the Chicago Tribune panned Survivor.[26] The Arizona Daily Star criticized One on One, calling King "a hack",[27] whereas Entertainment Weekly, Time, and the Rocky Mountain News gave the novel positive reviews.[28][29][30] Caretakers received positive praise by the New York Times,[31] while Bookreporter.com wrote that some readers might be disappointed by the changes made to McDowell's Candles Burning.[32]

Janice Delaney commented on Small World, saying that the "hidden, embarrassing aspects of menstruation are given unusual treatment by Tabitha King".[33]

Bibliography

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Novels

  • (1981) Small World
  • (1983) Caretakers *
  • (1985) The Trap (also published as Wolves at the Door) *
  • (1988) Pearl *
  • (1993) One on One *
  • (1994) The Book of Reuben *
  • (1997) Survivor
  • (2006) Candles Burning (with Michael McDowell)

Entries marked with an asterisk are set in King's fictional community of Nodd's Ridge.

Unpublished

  • The Sky in the Water[8]
  • The Devil's Only Friend

Nonfiction

  • (1994) Playing Like a Girl; Cindy Blodgett and the Lawrence Bulldogs Season of 93-94
  • (1994) Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude

Short stories

  • (1981) The Blue Chair
  • (1985) The Demonstration
  • (1986) Road Kill
  • (1998) Djinn and Tonic
  • (2002) The Woman's Room

Poetry

  • (1967) A Gradual Canticle for Augustine[34]
  • (1967) Elegy for Ike[35]
  • (1968) Note 1 from Herodotus[35]
  • (1970) Nonsong[35]
  • (1971) The Last Vampire: A Baroque Fugue[36]

Contributions and compilations

  • Murderess 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

References

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  5. ↑ http://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Spruce/6000000010838196099
  6. ↑ http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/29/obituaries/raymond-george-spruce/
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  34. ↑ On Writing
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  36. ↑ http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/stephen-tabitha-king-poems-contraband-176356658

Further reading

  • Mcaleer, Patrick. The Writing Family of Stephen King: A Critical Study of the Fiction of Tabitha King, Joe Hill and Owen King. McFarland. 2011.

External links

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