A fact from The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 October 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Didn't Stephen King write this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.129.181 (talk) 22:22, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nope, it was Ridley Pearson who wrote it. He based it off of parts of Stephen King's screenplay, but the book is his. Man, I remember having to repeatedly tell a co-worker of mine that all of this was fiction & that Rose Red didn't really exist. He wasn't really the brightest bulb in the box, so to speak. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 17:17, 4 April 2009 (UTC)Tokyogirl79[reply]
The article implies that the original idea for the Rose Red story was Pearson's, and that King was a mere adapter. Is this correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.121.223.69 (talk) 06:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]