Susan Dominus published an article on Stephen's King family. Susan explains the method Stephen and his wife Tabitha used to raise three children who pursued writing careers, "Entertaining their parents, for the King children, was part job, part enrichment. At bedtime, they were the ones expected to tell their parents stories, instead of the other way around" since they were born their parents stimulated them to develop story writing skills. The author presents the dialogue of the family on the dinner table discussing the books they read during their childhood, including many taped books they used to listen. Stephen and Tabitha had two sons, Joe Hill (who is married to a novelist) and Owen King, who are both writers today, and a daughter, Naomi, is a Unitarian Universalist minister.
The author of the article does a good job writing it, the article is clear, and supports the title. Susans objective in writing this article is to inform the reader about Stephen's King family business, and she clearly states what each one of them does, with dialogue she reinforces her statements giving some background to support the characters opinion. In her conclusion she goes a little of track regarding what she wrote about, she finishes her article saying that the Kings are a family business in writing and that is not usually common, in my opinion she should had written something about it unifying the Kings with the common interest in all of them such as writing or a sentimental bond that writing brings to them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/magazine/stephen-kings-family-business.html?hp&_r=0#commentsContainer
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