The Quiz: Which author incorporates his home state of Maine into many stories?
Cormac McCarthy
Jonathan Franzen
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947, but today he’s more closely associated with the city of Bangor, which inspired the fictional town of Derry that appears in many of his novels. The home he purchased there in the 1980s — a 19th-century mansion surrounded by an iron fence decorated with gargoyles — is now an archive and writers’ retreat. Bangor is also home to the Mount Hope Cemetery, which famously appeared in the 1989 film adaptation of King’s novel “Pet Sematary.”
The correct answer to this quiz is Stephen King.