斯蒂芬‧金，一九四七年出生于美国缅因州波特兰市，后在缅因州州立大学学习英语文学，毕业后走上写作之路。自一九七三年出版第一部长篇小说《魔女嘉莉》后，迄今已著有四十多部长篇小说和两百多部短篇小说。其所有作品均为全球畅销书，有超过百部影视作品取材自他的小说，其中最著名的当属《肖申克的救赎》。

一九九九年，斯蒂芬‧金遭遇严重车祸，康复后立刻投入写作。二○○三年，获得美国国家图书基金会颁发的“杰出贡献奖”，其后又获得“世界奇幻文学奖”的“终身成就奖”和美国推理作家协会“爱伦•坡奖”的“大师奖”。

在斯蒂芬‧金的众多作品中，以历时三十余年才完成的奇幻巨著“黑暗塔”系列（共七卷）最为壮观，书里的人物与情节，散见于斯蒂芬‧金的其他小说中。近年来的新作有短篇小说集《日落之后》，中篇小说集《暗夜无星》，以及长篇小说《11/22/63》《穹顶之下》《乐园》《长眠医生》等。

目前斯蒂芬‧金与妻子居住在美国缅因州班戈市。他的妻子塔比莎•金也是位小说家。

Madison Smartt Bell is one of the most versatile and gifted authors of his generation, a literary stylist with few peers. Doctor Sleep, one of his best novels, is a taut and satisfying psychological thriller planned to be released as a major motion picture under the title Hypnotic. Adrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically, can't get to sleep. He plies his trade in a depressed section of London, doing the occasional job for Scotland Yard, which brings him into contact with an unsavory drug trafficker. As little girls become the target of a serial killer, Adrian treads the line between tortured wakefulness and surreal sleep, and the gifts of his insomnia are called upon to unlock the secrets of a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality. Part spiritual pilgrimage, part thriller, Doctor Sleep is witty, menacing, and deeply satisfying, a bravura performance by one of today's finest writers.