Stephen King is a prolific author who has written hundreds of novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He had several children with his wife Tabitha and struggled with drug addiction for many years, including an incident where he was hit by a van and the driver later died of a drug overdose on King's birthday. King witnessed a childhood friend get hit by a train, and this early traumatic experience may have influenced his writing career and dark subject matter in some of his most famous works.

1. Stephen King

2. He had a few hundred works, including bunch of movies, books, novels, essays, short stories, poems http://www.stephenking.com/library/written.html

3. Stephen King had a lot of babies He had them all with his wife Tabitha. http://www.stephenking.com/the_author.html

4. Some people think that he is kind of crazy because he watched his buddy get hit by a train when he was a little kid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King CLICK ON THIS LINK TO LEARN MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King#Education_and_early_creativity

5. Drug addiction!! , They found grams of cocaine, Xanax, Valium, Nyquil, dextro (cough medicine) and marijuana, on the rug in front of him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King#Confronting_addiction

6. The day he got hit by a van. One day Stephen King was walking down the street and some guy hit him with a van. The dude that hit him then killed him self with an overdose on drugs on kings birthday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King#Confronting_addiction

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