Stephen King at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in Orono, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication. King has used other pseudonyms. The short story "The Fifth Quarter" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel "Carrie"), that was published in "Cavalier" in April 1972. The story was reprinted in King's collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" in 1993 under his own name. In the introduction to the Bachman novel "Blaze", King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that "Bachman" was the person using the
A Time to Kill (Grisham novel) A Time to Kill (Grisham novel) A Time to Kill is a 1988 legal thriller by John Grisham. It was Grisham's first novel. The novel was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing. When Doubleday published "The Firm", Wynwood released a trade paperback of "A Time to Kill", which became a bestseller. Dell published the mass market paperback months after the success of "The Firm", bringing Grisham to widespread popularity among readers. Doubleday eventually took over the contract for "A Time to Kill" and released a special hardcover edition. In 1996, the novel