A Few Thoughts on Stephen King's First Novel

Stephen King wrote his first novel, Rage (originally entitled Getting It On), in the summer of 1966 when he was nineteen years old. He later rewrote parts of it in 1976 for its publication in 1977 as the first of King’s “Richard Bachman” books. King later took the book out of print in 1998 after a series of school shootings in which the shooters were fo…