The King of Horror
The great mind behind the creepy clown in It, Carrie and calling President Trump a “chickensh*it”, this famous author was a struggling artist before he made his millions.
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46. Stephen King
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His dad abandoned his family when Stephen was just a toddler. This in turn had a deep psychological effect on his childhood because he always thought his mum would do the same:
“From a very early age, I wanted to be scared…I wanted an emotional engagement with something that was safe, something I could pull back from.”
His first part-time job was pumping petrol and he went on to cleaning laundry and later working as an English teacher.
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