In The Shining, college educated, struggling author, and ex-prep school teacher Jack Torrance is beaten down so low by his alcoholism that he’s forced to ply his trade as a glorified janitor. In ‘Salem’s Lot, successful author Ben Mears comes to the small town of Jerusalem’s Lot and comes face to face with the local rubes.
Which is probably why he so often writes about college graduates struggling in blue collar environments. I’m sure to him he remembers vividly what it was like to be 23 and struggling, but the truth is he’s been the most popular author on the planet for three times as long as he was a “starving artist.” The problem is that he’s a college educated, classically trained writer, and he's been a household name and fabulously wealthy since he was in his late-20’s. He likes rock and roll, blue chambray work shirts*, has stayed married to the same woman all these years, lives in the same house in the same town, and populates his literary work with endless blue collar characters. Despite also being one of the most successful authors ever, King protects his image as a lucky bastard milltown boy with everything he can muster. Stephen King is one of the most aggressively blue collar authors ever.
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