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

一九四七年齣生於美國緬因州波特蘭市，後在緬因州州立大學學習英語文學，畢業後走上寫作之路。自一九七三年齣版第一部長篇小說《魔女嘉莉》後，迄今已著有四十多部長篇小說和二百多部短篇小說。其所有作品均為全球暢銷書，有超過百部影視作品取材自他的小說，因此被譽為“現代驚悚小說大師”。

一九九九年，斯蒂芬‧金遭遇嚴重車禍，康復後又立刻投入寫作。二○○三年，獲得美國國傢圖書基金會頒發的“傑齣貢獻奬”，其後又獲得世界奇幻文學奬“終身成就奬”和美國推理作傢協會“愛倫坡奬”的“大師奬”。

在斯蒂芬‧金的眾多作品中，以曆時三十餘年纔終於完成的奇幻巨著“黑暗塔係列”（共七捲）最為壯觀，也最受金迷推崇，書裏的人物與情節，散見於斯蒂芬‧金的其他小說中。他的最新作品包括《11/22/63》、《暗夜無星》和《穹頂之下》等。

目前斯蒂芬‧金與妻子居住在美國緬因州班戈市。他的妻子塔比莎•金也是位小說傢。