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. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. It is a science fiction odyssey that is unlike any tale that Stephen King has ever written. “This quest is one of King's bestit communicates on a genuine, human levelbut is rich in symbolism and allegory"" ( Columbus Sunday Dispatch ). Each one enters into a different person's life in New York-here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower. Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. “Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,"" hails The Baltimore Sun. The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” ( Kirkus Reviews ) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies. Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba
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