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The Guardian // Lifestyle

Post your questions for Stephen King

Wednesday 23rd July 2025, 10:41AM

As a film adaptation of the prolific US author’s The Life of Chuck hits screens, it’s your chance to ask about anything from The Shining to the number 13If you’ve ever worried that you haven’t done enough with your life, then perhaps don’t look at the CV (or résumé, as he’d put it) of the American author Stephen King. Over the past 50 years, the 77-year-old horror, thriller, science fiction and fantasy writer has penned 65 novels and more than 200 short stories. Even if you’ve never read a Stephen King book in your life, the chances are you’ve seen a film adaptation of one of his works: be it Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining starring Jack Nicolson (1980); The Shawshank Redemption with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman (1994); Misery starring Kathy Bates (1990); The Green Mile with Tom Hanks (1999); or It starring Bill Skarsgård (2017). Even Stand by Me (1986) with River Phoenix and Corey Feldman was based on King’s novella The Body.It’s hard to know where to even start when it comes to asking him about his life and career. Which is why we’re giving you plenty of time to get in your questions as King prepares to take the reader interview chair for an expanded edition ahead of the release of The Life of Chuck starring Tom Hiddleston, based on his 2020 novella. His only notes so far are: no “lemon” questions, such as where he gets his ideas from. But where does he get his ideas

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