Prism: Stephen King 1969 University of Maine Yearbook.

[KING, Stephen].

$1,250.00

Item Number: 143490

Bangor, Maine: University of Maine/Prism, 1969.

1969 University of Maine Yearbook featuring several photographs of Stephen King as an undergraduate. Quarto, original publisher’s half cloth over illustrated boards, illustrated with black and white photographs including a large photograph of King protesting the Vietnam War on page 70. In very good condition.

King entered the University of Maine in 1966. He held a variety of jobs to pay for his studies, working as a janitor, a gas-station attendant, and an industrial laundry worker. Singer writes that "King received solid encouragement from two professors, Edward Holmes and Burton Hatlen." He participated in a writing workshop organized by Hatlen, where he fell in love with Tabitha Spruce. He graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and his daughter Naomi Rachel was born that year. Stephen and Tabitha wed in 1971. King returned to the University of Maine in 1977 to teach creative writing.