Stephen King

Stephen King was born 21 September 1947 in Portland Maine. He is a successful American writer there are famous for his horror novels. His books are very popular and are among the best selling books ever. He has also written script for films and television series. He is married to woman writer Tabitha King in January 1971. King and Tabitha live in Bangor, Maine in USA.
King is the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. When King was two years old, his father left the family, and Ruth King took care of Stephen King and his two years older adoptees big brothers often in difficult economic conditions.
From 1966 to 1970 studied King English at the University of Maine in Orono. It was there he met his wife Tabitha.
In 1967, sold King his first professional short story The Glass Floor for "Startling Mystery Stories. During this period got King also alcohol abuse in a decade, but with help of his wife and friends, came he out of it. For after publication of The Tommyknockers, went King's family and friends finally into the fight against his abuse, and he stopped all forms of drugs and alcohol the late eighties.
We will read text The Boogeyman, by Stephen King has written.

By Matilde Kjeldsen

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born 7^th of May 1940, in Eastbourne, England and died the 16 Febuary 1992 at the age of 51, with the diagnostic of lung cancer. In her teenage years she struggled with anorexia, but that would not stop her. She followed her father’s footsteps with working as a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. Later she went to the University of Bristol and studied English literature. Angela Carter had two marriages, the first one was with Paul Carter in 1960 and separated him in 1970, the second marriage was with Mark Pearce in 1977, they had a son together. In 1979 the bloody chamber was published by Gollancz which was a major British book publishing house, it is a short fiction collection, in the collection the text “the werewolf” is found, which is the text that we have read in in the class, but short fiction is not the only thing that she wrote, Angela Carter also wrote Poems and children books. In 2008 The Times ranked Angela Carter 10^th on their list of greatest British writers, she also received a price in 2012, where she was selected as the best winner ever of the “James Tait Black Memorial prize”. It is a literary prize which is awarded for literature that is written in English language.

Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave was born on 22 September 1957 in Victoria, Australia. He lived a troubled life as a young man. As he were arrested for burglary, his father died and his mother bailed him out. Later on, he started using heroin. After his father died, he started having success writing and turned out to be a great multiartist, besides being a writer he is also an actor and a singer in his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. His first book was Avengers Assemble, which he wrote in 1988. Nick Cave have won many awards for his music and writing.

We have been working with the song "The Wild Rose".