Stephen Edwin King he was born in 1947. An American writer, he is best known for his incredible popular horror novels. King's stories often include completely ordinary protagonists, such as a middle-class family, a child or a writer. Although it shows them leading everyday lives, the supernatural is almost always present include and exceptional circumstances escalate in the story. King, however, also writes stories outside the horror genre, including, for example, the novels The Shawshank Redemption and The Body.