The Outsider

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.His recent work includes Never Flinch , the short story collection You Like It Darker ( a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), 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 , FindersKeepers ,and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winnerfor Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by TheNew York TimesBook Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower , It , Pet Sematary , Doctor Sleep , and Firestarter are the basis formajor motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipientof the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the2014 National Medal of Arts, and the2003 National Book Foundation Medal forDistinguished Contribution to American Letters.He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife,novelist Tabitha King.