Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch (May 2025), 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, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book 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 for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Praise for The Life of Chuck and King's Short Fiction

"The Life of Chuck is one of the oddest, most affecting stories I have read in a very long time." --Ruth Franklin, New York Times Book Review

"Phenomenal... Just when you think things are getting really weird, it all snaps together like an epiphany and you get to the gorgeous meat of the matter." --Brian Truitt, USA Today

"A slightly surreal, wholly engaging narrative about dance, music, mortality and acceptance, and about the bedrock notion that all of us, like Chuck, contain multitudes." --Bill Sheehan, The Washington Post

"For a writer whose books need a big stage, Stephen King also can turn out shorter stories just as gripping as his epic novels." --Amanda St. Amand, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Pub date: 2025-06-10

Length: 128 pages