The U.S. science fiction TV drama "The Dead Zone" was based on a book by which author?

The U.S. and Canadian 2002 - 2007 science fiction TV drama series "The Dead Zone" was based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King. The show consciously used the main characters from King's novel. For the first five years that the series ran, it was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In its sixth and final year, the show's episodes were captured on film in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Stephen King was born in Poland, Maine. He was the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left the family, Stephen, who was two, with his older brother (David) was raised by his mother. In his childhood, he and his brother lived in two places (Fort Wayne, Indiana with his father's family and Stratford, Connecticut). When Stephen was eleven, his mother took her kids back to Durham, Maine, for good.

King attended grammar school and high school in Durham, Maine. In 1970 he graduated the University of Maine at Orono with a B.A. in English. He began writing his first professional short story in 1967. He sold the story ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories. Later in King's career, his 1979 novel "The Dead Zone" was eagerly published. It was his seventh novel and the fifth novel under his own name. It is a thriller, supernatural, horror work of fiction describing hard to believe imaginary events and a number of spirited people.