Stephen King majored in English Language and Literature in Maine University in Orono in 1970. A year later, he married Tabitha Spruce, whom he first met in the campus library, where both worked. 

In the autumn of 1971, he started teaching English at Hamdem Public High School in Maine, while he was writing short stories. 

In 1973 he published his first novel, Carrie, which allowed him to abandon teaching and concentrate in his writing career. 
 

In 1994, in the middle of her preparations for moving, Claudia Eschelman, Bachman’s widow, found in a basement (others say it was an attic) in the Bachmans’ residence in New Hampshire a box full of manuscripts in several stages of development. 

The most complete of those manuscripts originated a posthumous novel, The Regulators, published by Charles Verrill, who also publishes Stephen King, on request from Claudia Eschelman herself. The original manuscript was found in a file box wrapped in rubber bands, as if Richard Bachman himself had apparently decided to submit it to his publisher after the final revision.