Finally, the counterculture movements of the 1950s and 1960s, often associated with marijuana use, lead to a surge in Shawshank’s prison population of men convicted of drug crimes. Meanwhile, Andy served in World War II (1939–1945) prior to his incarceration his war buddy Jim helps arrange the fake identity, Peter Stevens, that Andy uses after his escape. The novella’s narrator Red grew up poor and murdered his wife for partly economic motives-her life insurance policy-in 1938, during the Great Depression thus, real-world historical events partly determined Red’s fate. The WPA concrete used to construct the cellblock is relatively weak, which allows Andy to dig a tunnel through the wall over a period of decades. federal agency created under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to increase jobs during the Great Depression (1929–1940), a stock market crash and subsequent massive economic recession that left many Americans-and people worldwide-unemployed and struggling. In Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, the Shawshank prison cellblock where incarcerated protagonists Red and Andy live was constructed in the 1930s under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

In his 70s, Stephen King is still an active writer, having published two separate novels in 2022. His two sons, Joseph and Owen King, are novelists publishing under the pseudonym Joe Hill, Joseph King has also won awards for his horror and fantasy works.

Stephen King has a daughter and two sons. Both a critically acclaimed and a popular writer, Stephen King has received a National Medal of Arts and a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters as well as multiple Bram Stoker Awards, Horror Guild Awards, Locus Awards, and World Fantasy Awards, among other honors. For example, his novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1982)-adapted by director Frank Darabont into the Oscar-nominated film The Shawshank Redemption (1994)-is a realist work. Though known primarily as a horror writer, King has also written works of fantasy, science fiction, and realism. From 1977 to 2007, he published seven novels under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman. Stephen King has published more than 60 novels since Carrie, including influential horror works such as The Shining (1977), Pet Sematary (1983), It (1986), and Misery (1987). In 1976, the director Brian De Palma made a successful film adaptation of Carrie starring Sissy Spacek after the film was released, the novel entered the New York Times bestseller list. He published his first novel, the horror story Carrie, in 1974. in English from the University of Maine, where he also met his future wife, novelist Tabitha (Spruce) King. His first story, “The Glass Floor,” was published in 1967 in the magazine Startling Mystery Stories. Stephen King was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine.

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