Stephen King, an American horror, science fiction, and fantasy novelist, marries Tabitha Spruce, an author and activist, in 1971.
Stephen Edwin King is a horror, supernatural fiction, thriller, crime, and science-fiction author from the United States. On January 7, 1971, King married Tabitha Spruce. She is a novelist as well as a philanthropist. The pair owns three homes, one in Bangor, Maine (which is being converted into a museum and writer's retreat), one in Lovell, Maine, and a waterfront estate in Sarasota, Florida, where they spend the winter. The Kings have three children, two sons and a daughter, as well as four grandchildren.
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