This is simply one of the best films ever made and I know I am not the first to say that and I certainly won't be the last. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.Misery and Stand By Me were the best adaptations up until this one, now you can add Shawshank to that list. King is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The long novella is a form King has returned to over and over again, and many have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including 1922, Apt Pupil, The Body (Stand By Me), The Langoliers, The Mist and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption which was the basis of The Shawshank Redemption, IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

Biography: STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, this modern classic was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, is one of the most beloved films of all time and is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. Originally published in the collection Different Seasons, it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption. Suspenseful, heart-wrenching and hopeful, this iconic King novella is populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, especially the fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of King's most celebrated stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. So begins this mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment, deep friendship and offbeat escape. There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess - I'm the guy who can get it for you.Īnd new convict Andy Dufresne wants two things from fellow prisoner Red: a small rock-hammer for carving stones and a giant poster of Rita Hayworth.

1 bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption - about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available as a standalone book. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The No.

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