Stephen King began writing his first novel, The Long Walk, a dystopian thriller set in an alternate, totalitarian America, as a college freshman at the University of Maine in the fall of 1966. It wasn’t published until more than a decade later, however, under a pen name, “Richard Bachman,” at the suggestion of King’s publisher to avoid over-saturating the book-buying market with the prolific King’s work. King wrote The Long Walk during one of the most turbulent periods in American history. Between political assassinations, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War, America seemed dangerously on the brink of self-immolation and dissolution or barring either, a truly representative, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic democracy or political suppression, right-wing repression, and reactionary authoritarianism. (Alternatives, of course, that...
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