The task is simple: run or die One hundred 17-year-old Americans set off on the death march every year on May 1. For ninety-nine of them, this is true literally - they will not survive him. The winner, on the other hand, gets everything he wants ... Biography (Stephen King) Stephen King, born in 1947 in Portland, Maine, first worked as an English teacher before he made his breakthrough in 1973 with his first novel 'Carrie'. Since then, he has been considered one of the most successful writers in the world. In November 2003, he received the National Book Foundation's Special Lifetime Achievement Award. Stephen King lives with his wife Tabitha in Bangor, Maine. New product