Editing Richard Bachman (section)

==Identification==
[[File:StephenKingGFDL.PNG|thumb|271x271px|Stephen King]]
King dedicated Bachman's early books—''[[Rage (King novel)|Rage]]'' (1977), ''[[The Long Walk (novel)|The Long Walk]]'' (1979), ''[[Roadwork (novel)|Roadwork]]'' (1981), and ''[[The Running Man (King novel)|The Running Man]]'' (1982)—to people close to him. The link between King and his shadow writer was exposed in early 1985 after Steve Brown, a bookstore clerk in Washington, D.C., noted similarities between the writing styles of King and Bachman. Brown located publisher's records at the [[Library of Congress]] which included a document naming King as the author of one of Bachman's novels. Brown wrote to King's publishers with a copy of the documents he had uncovered, and asked them what to do. Two weeks later, King telephoned Brown personally and suggested he write an article about how he discovered the truth, allowing himself to be interviewed.<ref name="Brown">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Stephen P. |title=Steven [sic] King Shining Through |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/04/09/steven-king-shining-through/eaf662da-e9eb-4aba-9eb9-217826684ab6/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=9 April 1985}}</ref><ref>Brown, Steve. [http://www.liljas-library.com/bachman_exposed.php/ "Richard Bachman Exposed"]. Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King. Retrieved December 27, 2008.</ref> At the time of the announcement in 1985, King was working on ''[[Misery (novel)|Misery]]'', which he had planned to release as a Bachman book,<ref>{{cite book |title=Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Thechnique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds |first=Sharon |last=Delmendo |editor1-first=George Edgar |editor1-last=Slusser |editor2-first=Eric S. |editor2-last=Rabkin |page=[https://archive.org/details/stylesofcreation0000unse/page/177 177] |publisher=[[University of Georgia Press]] |year=1992 |isbn=9780820314914 |url=https://archive.org/details/stylesofcreation0000unse/page/177}}</ref> but changed his mind after the outing. The next Bachman book was not until 1996, with ''[[The Regulators (novel)|The Regulators]]''. And the last Bachman book is the 2007 ''[[Blaze (novel)|Blaze]]''. These latter books were said to have been "found" or "discovered".<!-- which was true in the case of Blaze even though the Regulators was written in the mid nineties -->{{clarification needed|date=November 2023}}