斯蒂芬‧金，一九四七年齣生於美國緬因州波特蘭市，後在緬因州州立大學學習英語文學，畢業後走上寫作之路。自一九七三年齣版第一部長篇小說《魔女嘉莉》後，迄今已著有四十多部長篇小說和兩百多部短篇小說。其所有作品均為全球暢銷書，有超過百部影視作品取材自他的小說，其中最著名的當屬《肖申剋的救贖》。

一九九九年，斯蒂芬‧金遭遇嚴重車禍，康復後立刻投入寫作。二○○三年，獲得美國國傢圖書基金會頒發的“傑齣貢獻奬”，其後又獲得“世界奇幻文學奬”的“終身成就奬”和美國推理作傢協會“愛倫•坡奬”的“大師奬”。

在斯蒂芬‧金的眾多作品中，以曆時三十餘年纔完成的奇幻巨著“黑暗塔”係列（共七捲）最為壯觀，書裏的人物與情節，散見於斯蒂芬‧金的其他小說中。近年來的新作有短篇小說集《日落之後》，中篇小說集《暗夜無星》，以及長篇小說《11/22/63》《穹頂之下》《樂園》《長眠醫生》等。

目前斯蒂芬‧金與妻子居住在美國緬因州班戈市。他的妻子塔比莎•金也是位小說傢。

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.