
in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Returning to the same Maine town where It took place, a town that has haunted Stephen King for decades, Insomnia blends King’s trademark bone-chilling realism with supernatural terror to create yet another masterpiece of suspense.

Now Ralph is part of it…and lack of sleep is the least of his worries. The dying has been going on in Derry for a long, long time. There’s a definite mean streak running through this small New England city underneath its ordinary surface awesome and terrifying forces are at work.

He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people’s heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. During his late night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier, until he’s barely sleeping at all.

Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. This is an alternate cover for 9781501144226
