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Motion Pictures and Awards

Many of King’s works have been made into motion pictures. They include: Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), Cujo (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Apt Pupil (1998), Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Dreamcatcher (2003), and Secret Window (2004).

King has won many awards, including a Hugo Award for the nonfiction work Danse Macabre (1980) and an O. Henry Award for the short story “The Man in the Black Suit” (1994). In 2003 he received the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.