Stephen King: The Non-Fictionby Rocky Wood & Justin BrooksStephen King: The Non-Fiction is the first significant review of King'sNon-Fiction. Most fans and readers know King has written three non-fictionbooks and may have noticed his introductions and Author's Notes to his ownworks, but few know of his hundreds of columns, articles, book reviews andcriticism.In fact the authors review over 560 published works of non-fiction (morethan a dozen are revealed here for the first time) and a further nineunpublished non-fiction pieces. Full details of these unpublished pieces arerevealed for the first time.Stephen King: The Non-Fiction fills all the gaps, providing significantdetail on each of the most significant of these Non-Fiction Works; and areview of every other piece!Authors Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks spent five years compiling thisoutstanding reference work, with the assistance of many of the leading Kingresearchers, collectors and 'super-collectors'; and access to RestrictedNon-Fiction Works in King's papers at the University of Maine, Orono.Stephen King: The Non-Fiction reveals for the first time dozens of pieces ofnon-fiction and their appearances that were previously unknown to Kingresearchers.If you've ever wanted to know more about King's amazing and oftencontroversial non-fiction, this is the reference work you must have. This isthe ultimate volume to accompany Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished --and this is the perfect companion in your collection for The Stephen KingUniverse and The Road to the Dark Tower.Among new pieces reviewed in the book are:o Two previously unknown King pieces from his high school days - sportsreporting in the Lisbon Enterprise (these are not the articles Kingdescribes in On Writing); and a King non-fiction piece from his high schoolnewspaper The Drum; along with the fascinating story of their rediscovery bythe authorso A 1967 column supporting the US troops in Vietnamo Previously unknown pieces from The Maine Campus, such as a review ofthe Spring 1969 issue of Ubris (in which King published the first version ofNight Surf, the precursor to The Stand); an amazing movie review; andletters to the editor (many highly amusing)o Nine unpublished pieces of non-fiction reviewed in detail, includingpieces held in the Restricted Boxes of King's papers at the University ofMaine - for the first time anywhere the authors describe these works indetailo A large number of previously unknown letters to the editoro Introductions to the work of other authors; and book reviews publishedin unusual venueso Comprehensive reviews of King's non-fiction in the Bangor Daily Newsand other Maine newspapers, some of it controversialo King's early baseball writing, most published in Maine newspaperso Working from the original sources Wood and Brooks also identified andcorrected numerous errors in the previous reporting of material - incorrecttitles, dates, pagination and even publication information