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Stephen King, cranking out Sports Center copy

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Stephen King might be a master of horror and suspense, but that doesn’t mean he can’t enjoy a good ball game. In fact, King is a longtime fan of the Red Sox, going so far as to co-write ‘Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season’ with Stewart O’Nan. Maybe it’s his dedication to his favorite ball team that prompted him to appear in this new Sports Center commercial, set to debut on ESPN on Monday.

‘Ghost writer’ -- heh. And out in time for Halloween.

Thanks to the literary blog Syntax of Things, which found the video here.

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-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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