Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut.
After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. His younger sister suspects her brother may have gotten himself into more trouble than he can handle and, through a friend, she solicits Bill Hodges and his friends to aid Pete.Īuthor King ratchets up the tension as no one else can, and it's a literal race against time for Hodges and his team to save Pete.Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Along with the notebooks he finds a load of cash and uses it to help his family stay afloat in a bad recession and to support his father, who is coping with near-fatal injuries from a lunatic who had driven a Mercedes into a crowd of unemployed people at a job fair.īut Pete is in over his head as finally Morris Bellamy is freed from prison and on his way to collect his long-awaited ill-gotten gains. All the while he dreams of the day when he can get his hands on the notebooks again.įlash forward to 2010 and young Pete Saubers discovers Bellamy's buried treasure. But fate throws Bellamy a severe curve ball and he ends up in prison for the next 36 years. Over 160 handwritten notebooks of short stories, poems and novels. Hearing that the reclusive author has continued writing but not sharing with the public, Bellamy must have access to what he expects to be a treasure trove of literature.
"Finders Keepers" opens in 1978 following the crime spree of Morris Bellamy, who is obsessed with writer John Rothstein. Stephen King returns to his crime trilogy he started with "Mr.
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