Stephen King

Books that have characters with writers, or characters who like to write, or characters who want to write:

1. 1975: 'Salem's Lot - Ben Mears is a writer
2. 1977: The Shining - Jack Torrance is a writer
3. 1978: The Stand - Larry Underwood: Song writer, Harold Lauder: writer for his school's paper
4. 1979: The Long Walk - Harkness (wants to write a book) and Raymond Davis Garraty (good at telling stories)
5. 1981: Cujo - Steve Kemp is a poet
6. 1982: Different Seasons: Apt Pupil - Todd Bowden shows a flair for writing
7. 1982: Different Seasons: The Body - Gordie LaChance: I'm a writer now, like I said
8. 1985: Skeleton Crew: Word Processor of the Gods - Richard Hagstrom, a middle-aged writer
9. 1985: Skeleton Crew: The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet - Henry, fiction editor for the struggling Logan's magazine. Henry and Thorpe believe that their typewriters serve as homes for Fornits, tiny elves who bring creativity and good luck
10. 1986: IT - Bill Denbrough has become a successful writer
11. 1987: Misery - Paul Sheldon writes novels
12. 1987: The Tommyknockers - Roberta Anderson (Bobbi) wrote the book The Buffalo Soldiers, and was trying to write another novel
13. 1989: The Dark Half - Thad Beaumont is a writer
14. 1998: Bag of Bones - Mike Noonan is a novelist
15. 1990: Four Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden - Mort Rainey is a successful novelist in Maine
16. 1990: Four Past Midnight: The Langoliers - Robert Jenkins (Bob), the mystery writer
17. 1993: Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Rainy Season - John Graham writing book on the in-migration of the French during the seventeenth century
18. 1993: Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Dedication - Peter Jefferies, a prejudiced writer
19. 1993: Nightmares & Dreamscapes: The End of the Whole Mess - Howard Fornoy is a writer
20. 1996: Desperation - Johnny Marinville is a writer
21. 1996: The Regulators - Johnny Marinville is a writer of children's books
22. 2002: Everything's Eventual: 1408 - Mike Enslin is a writer of non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places
23. 2002: Everything's Eventual: The Road Virus Heads North - Richard Kinnell is a successful horror writer
24. 2006: Lisey's Story - Lisey Landon is the widow of a famous novelist named Scott Landon
25. 2007: Blaze - John Cheltzman was beginning to write stories
26. 2009: Under The Dome - Carolyn Sturges wanted was a career as a teacher, writer, and novelist
27. 2010: Full Dark No Stars: Big Driver - Tess is a cozy mystery writer
28. 2011: 11-22-63 - Jake Epping worked on a novel in the evenings that called The Murder Place
29. 2015: Finders Keepers - John Rothstein is a famous writer
30. 2017: Gwendy's Button Box - Gwendy Peterson thinks she might have a novel in her
31. 2020: If It Bleeds: Rat - Drew Larson is a writer and academic who has published several short stories but has been unable to complete a novel
32. 2021: Later - Regis Thomas writes best-selling romance novels set in the Roanoke Colony
33. 2021: Billy Summers - Bill Summers's cover story is that he is a writer named David Lockridge