Inside Stephen King’s Writing-Obsessed Family

In Stephen King's immediate family, just one member is not a professional writer. King's wife, both of his sons, and his daughter-in-law all have published books to their names; his daughter, the outlier, is a Unitarian Universalist minister. An extensive New York Times Magazine profile on the family calls it America's "first family of letters," noting that writing is the "family business."

As kids, Naomi King, Joe Hill, and Owen King passed the time by reading books out loud to their father and each other, discussing literature, critiquing each other's work, and playing storytelling games. Joe, at the ripe old age of 11, started writing two hours every single day (weekends and holidays included), just like his dad. Even daughter-in-law Kelly Braffet, who married Owen, grew up an obsessive Stephen King fan.