Early life
King was born in Portland, Maine, the son of Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury) and Donald Edwin King.[3] When King was two years old, his father, who was a merchant seaman, left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes," leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Stratford, Connecticut. When King was eleven years old, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where Ruth King cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caretaker in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged.

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