
“Reading IT made me realize this (writing) is what you are supposed to be doing.”Īfter rehab, Chizmar quit the lacrosse team and took his love for sports to the school’s newspaper. “It was a slap in the face,” Chizmar said. During his rehabilitation, Stephen King’s famous novel IT was released, and he read the whole thing. In 1986, Chizmar was injured playing lacrosse. In his first years at the university, he didn’t write as much as he used to time was difficult to come by with lacrosse and classes. He said his friends found it cool and his mother would even pay him ten cents or a quarter for each story.Ĭhizmar graduated from Edgewood High School in 1983 and went to the University of Maryland Baltimore County to play lacrosse. From a young age, he wrote and told stories, mostly of the horror variety, to his friends and his parents. “That’s when I knew, that this is what I wanted to do.”īorn in 1965, growing up in Edgewood, Maryland, Chizmar said he was always surrounded by books and loved the library. “Listening to my teacher read ‘The Monkey, ’ it really cemented storytelling for me, and it was part of my identity,” Chizmar said. The story is “The Monkey” by Stephen King. Chizmar’s attention is grabbed immediately. There might be other languages still and if you know of any not listed here, PLEASE let me know.Sitting in his tenth-grade English class at Edgewood High School, Richard Chizmar’s teacher starts the day by reading a recently released short story to the anxious students.

That means everything indicates the book exist but I don't have a copy myself ( email me if you do). IF there isn't a red boarder around the cover.

I have posted covers of all the books I personally have so all those languages are confirmed. Here you will find all the languages Stephen King's books has been translated into.
