Billy Summers (56 page)
Authors: Stephen King
© SHANE LEONARD
STEPHEN KING
is the author of more than sixty books, all of
them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes
If It Bleeds
,
The
Institute
,
Elevation
,
The Outsider
,
Sleeping Beauties
(cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy:
End of
Watch
,
Finders Keepers
, and
Mr. Mercedes
(an Edgar Award winner
for Best Novel and now a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel
11/22/63
was named a top ten book of 2011 by the
New York Times Book
Review
and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.
His epic works
The Dark Tower
,
It
,
Pet Sematary
, and
Doctor
Sleep
are the basis for major motion pictures, with
It
now the
highest-grossing horror film of all time. He 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. He lives in
Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: King, Stephen, 1947â author. Title: Billy Summers : a novel / Stephen King. Description: First Scribner hardcover edition. | New York : Scribner, 2021. Identifiers: LCCN 2021002597 (print) | LCCN 2021002598 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982173616 (hardback) | ISBN 9781982173623 (paperback) | ISBN 9781982173630 (ebook) Subjects: GSAFD: Suspense fiction. Classification: LCC PS3561.I483 B55 2021 (print) | LCC PS3561.I483 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54âdc23 LC record available at
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