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Tabitha J. King
OccupationAuthor, Activist
GenreHorror, fantasy, science fiction
SpouseStephen King
ChildrenNaomi King
Joe King
Owen King

Tabitha King (née Spruce) (born March 24, 1949) is an American author and activist. She is married to writer Stephen King.

Biography

Tabitha King was born Tabitha Jane-Frances Spruce in Old Town, Maine. She was born to Raymond George (July 11, 1920-July 4,2007) and Sarah Jane White Spruce (February 5,1923-February 27,2011). She is one of eight children.

Her primary education took place at St. Mary’s Grammar in Old Town, from which she graduated in 1963. She then attended John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor until 1967, and earned her bachelor’s degree in history in 1971 from the University of Maine in Orono.

Family

King met her husband, author Stephen King, in college through her work-study job in the Fogler Library. Their daughter Naomi Rachel was born in 1970. They married on January 2, 1971. They had two more children: Joseph Hillstrom King in 1972 and Owen Phillip King in 1977. Naomi is a former restaurateur and now a minister. Both sons have become authors in their own right.

Career

King has published eight novels (the eighth in 2006 with Michael McDowell as co-author), all of which were released in hardcover by Macmillan and paperback by New American Library. She has also published two works of non-fiction, one of which was published in paperback by Dendrite.

Social activism

King serves on several boards and committees in the state of Maine, including the board of directors of Shaw House (an adolescent homeless shelter in Bangor), the board of the Maine Public Broadcasting System, and the Bangor Public Library board.[1]

She has previously served on the University of Maine Press board and for three years as a board member on the Maine Humanities Council.[2]

In 1996, she served as chair of the campaign to renovate the Bangor Public Library, which raised over eight million dollars.[3] This was the largest charitable campaign in history of Bangor as of March 2005.[1]

In 1997, King served as co-chair of the campaign to raise funds for a former school building to permanently house Shaw House.[1]

She currently serves as vice president of WZON/WKIT, as well as in the administration of two family philanthropic foundations.[1]

Awards and recognition

In May 1987, King and her husband were awarded Honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from their alma mater, University of Maine in Orono.

In 1998, King was the recipient of the first Annual Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize from the Maine Humanities Council for her service to the advancement of the Humanities.[2]

Bibliography

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 (author))

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

Unpublished

  • The Sky in the Water[4]
  • The Devil's Only Friend[5]

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
  • (1998) Djinn and Tonic
  • (2002) The Woman's Room

Poetry

  • (1967) A Gradual Canticle for Augustine

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

  1. ^ a b c d "122nd Legislature celebrates National Women's History Month March 2005: Tabitha King (b.1949)". Maine Senate. March 2005. Retrieved 2008-09-30. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ a b Rogers, Lisa (1999-01-01). "Maine awards new prize to novelist Tabitha King". Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "The GBCVB's "Tommyknockers & More" Bus Tours and Stephen & Tabitha King". Greater Bangor Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 2008-09-30. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Interview About Book The Sky in the Water
  5. ^ Interview About The Devil's Only Friend

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