M. L. Hollowell
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
My life is in many ways a reflection of his.
His early life, anyway.
Before he hit the jackpot with Carrie.
Before the fame and fortune.
Not that I'm in it for that.
That'd be nice, but... He wrote Carrie before he was 30, so he's got me beat there.
But it's not a race.
It's not a competition.
I, like King, live in a small town.
I am married and have two children, as did he, before he had the third one.
And for all I know, we may have another on the way.
I teach, in my case, at the local high school.
Not writing or English, but geography, of all things, because they already have an English teacher.
I know nothing about geography.
I can't tell you what state borders this one."
That's what online maps are for, which is what my students tell me all the time.
I believe family was, in some ways, the source of King's genius.
It provided him stability, a tether to the real world, allowing him to turn out his rock-solid, man-of-the-people prose.
His work connects.