Joseph Hillstrom King

Stephen King's son - the writer Joe Hill - for a long time hid his relationship with the famous father. For conspiracy, the man took a pseudonym in honor of the poet and trade union activist, who was shot in 1915 on false charges of murder. Only at the age of 35, having received 2 literary awards, the writer publicly admitted that the author of "The Dark Tower", "The Green Mile" and "Misery" is his father. In an interview with Neil Gaiman, Stephen King said that the son is like a fireworks of ideas.

Joseph Hillstrom is the middle child of the "horror emperor" who was born in June 1972 in the town of Hermon in the northeastern United States, and spent his childhood in Bangor. Of Stephen's three children, only Naomi's eldest daughter showed no interest in writing. Joseph's younger brother is the writer Owen King.

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Little Joseph became the prototype for 5-year-old Danny Torrance, the hero of his father's novel The Shining. In 1982, the boy starred in the prologue and epilogue of George Romero's Kaleidoscope of Horror, in which King Sr. made his screenwriter debut, and also starred in the episode "The Lonely Death of Geordie Verill." Joseph's character is a young comic book lover Billy, oppressed by his stern father Stan. Curiously, comics are now the favorite genre of writer Joe Hill.

At the age of 14, the teenager created the novel "Midnight Eats", which in adulthood ironically described as a hybrid of "American Pie" with the musical "Cannibal". At the age of 18, the future writer wrote a work reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings.

Joseph created his first stories while studying at the Faculty of Literature at Vassar College, a private university in the state of New York, founded in 1861 as a university for women, but since 1969 has accepted applicants of both sexes. For many years, Joe Hill's works were published only in magazines and anthologies. In 2005 alone, 14 stories by the writer, including the now very famous Black Telephone, were published as a separate book. The collection was called Ghosts of the Twentieth Century.

In 2007, Hill's novel Heart-Shaped Box was released, the title of which refers to the song of the group Nirvana. The character of the work - rock star Jude Coyne - buys a ghost costume over the Internet. The ghost turns out to be real and takes revenge on the musician for the sins of the past.

In 2016, the novel Firefighter was released, which takes place in the writer's home state. The terrorists infected people with a fungus that first forms golden and black spots on the skin, and then burns or tears the host. Pregnant nurse Harper tries to live to see the birth of a child (children of the infected are sometimes born healthy) and meets a mysterious firefighter. The plot is interwoven with biographies of real people - from George Clooney to Barack Obama.

The writer does not make his private life public. It is known that in his youth, Joseph married a girl named Leonora, to whom he dedicated the novel Horns, released in 2010 and known for the 2013 film adaptation with Daniel Radcliffe in the title role.

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The marriage to Leonora ended in 2010. In May 2018, the writer married a second time. Joseph Hilstrom sometimes posts family pictures on his Instagram page, although it is predominantly filled with book cover photos.

The writer has three sons. The eldest son Ethan appeared in 1999, shortly before Stephen King was hit by a van.

In 2018, a collection of Hill's stories "Strange Weather" was published in Russian. The heroes of the book are faced with natural disasters - a fire tornado, a rain of pins, a cloud of alien mind, a deadly hail.

In May 2019, Joseph attended the graduation ceremony for his firstborn, Ethan. A photo from this event, walking on the Internet, indicates that the younger King is short-sighted in his father and grandfather. Time will tell whether the young man will continue his writing dynasty.

In June 2019, the show of the series "Nosferatu", based on Hill's book "Christmas Land", started. In the novel, the writer developed the theme of child abduction, which he had begun in Black Telephone.

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Also in June 2019, it became known that Hill was appointed curator of the Hill House comics, the first part of which will be released on the eve of Halloween. In 2008–2013, Stephen King's son published the Locke Keys comic series, and the next found key became the catalyst for events in each volume.

2005 - "Ghosts of the Twentieth Century" 2007 - "Heart Shaped Box" 2008-2013 - "Locke Keys" 2010 - "Horns" 2013 - "Christmas Land" 2016 - "Firefighter" 2017 - "Strange Weather"

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