11/22/63 theories, ultimately coming to the conclusion that Oswald acted alone. King met with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson and the author of books about several presidents, and used some of her ideas of worst-case political scenarios that might occur in the absence of Kennedy's assassination. The trade hardcover edition features a dust jacket that is a faux newspaper front page, with the front of the jacket featuring an article recounting the real historical event of Kennedy's assassination, and the back featuring an alternative history article speaking of the event as just a failed assassination "attempt"
Doctor Sleep (novel) "Doctor Sleep" won the poll with 5,861 votes to "The Wind Through the Keyhole"'s 5,812. On September 23, 2011, Stephen King received the Mason Award at the Fall for the Book event at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, during which he read an excerpt from "Doctor Sleep". King finished work on the first draft in early November 2011. On February 19, 2012, King read the beginning section of "Doctor Sleep" at the Savannah Book Festival, in Savannah, Georgia. The audiobook edition of King's 2012 novel "", released on April 24, 2012, contains the novel's prologue read by the