11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the date of the novel's title). The novel was announced on the author's official site on March 2, 2011.[1] A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011,[2] and another excerpt was published in the October 28, 2011 issue of Entertainment Weekly[3] The novel was published on November 8, 2011,[4] and quickly became a number-one bestseller. It stayed on the list for an additional seventeen weeks. 11/22/63 won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel,[5][6] and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel[7] and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[8]

The novel required deep research to accurately portray the late 1950s and early 1960s.[9] King commented on the amount of research it required, saying "I've never tried to write anything like this before. It was really strange at first, like breaking in a new pair of shoes."[9] The novel's time-travel premise marks it as science fiction, specifically the alternative history subgenre, although the extensive period research undertaken by King, dealing with real-life events and people between 1958 and 1963, gives it a strong feeling of historical fiction.

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斯蒂芬‧金 Stephen King

一九四七年出生于美国缅因州波特兰市，后在缅因州州立大学学习英语文学，毕业后走上写作之路。自一九七三年出版第一部长篇小说《魔女嘉莉》后，迄今已著有四十多部长篇小说和二百多部短篇小说。其所有作品均为全球畅销书，有超过百部影视作品取材自他的小说，因此被誉为“现代惊悚小说大师”。

一九九九年，斯蒂芬‧金遭遇严重车祸，康复后又立刻投入写作。二○○三年，获得美国国家图书基金会颁发的“杰出贡献奖”，其后又获得世界奇幻文学奖“终身成就奖”和美国推理作家协会“爱伦坡奖”的“大师奖”。

在斯蒂芬‧金的众多作品中，以历时三十余年才终于完成的奇幻巨著“黑暗塔系列”（共七卷）最为壮观，也最受金迷推崇，书里的人物与情节，散见于斯蒂芬‧金的其他小说中。他的最新作品包括《11/22/63》、《暗夜无星》和《穹顶之下》等。

目前斯蒂芬‧金与妻子居住在美国缅因州班戈市。他的妻子塔比莎•金也是位小说家。