Stephen King
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Stephen King may be the most popular author of his generation, as there certainly isn’t another writer who has inspired as many great movies. While there are a few adaptations like The Dark Tower and Maximum Overdrive that have been perceived as massive disappointments, films based on King novels and short stories like The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Stand by Me, Misery, The Dead Zone, and The Green Mile are often cited when discussing the greatest films ever made.