Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King was written by Lisa Rogak and published in 2009. It's an unofficial biography of the one man book industry and horror writer and tells the story of how a geeky nobody living in a trailer with no money became the best selling author of the 20th century. I haven't read much of King's later work but I remember reading the short stories and some of the Bachman books when I was at school. The book of his I really love is Danse Macabre, a non-fiction work where King talks about the horror genre and old films and television shows he remembers. It was probably that book that persuaded me to take this out of the library and learn .  Read the complete review

Haunted Heart is an unauthorised biography of my second favourite author of all time; Stephen King. (For the purists out there, my number one favourite remains fantasy writer, Robin Hobb). It takes a measured and objective look at his life and career through good times and bad and examines briefly the events behind some of the novels that have helped made King (in)famous. Beginning with his humble origins and the father who abandoned the family when King was very small, the book then goes on to look at King's early career selling short stories to skin mags. From here, we are slowly given slightly more of an insight than normal into the man behind the monsters ...  Read the complete review