Richard Bachman

Not to be confused with Richard Bach.
For the ice hockey player, see Richard Bachman (ice hockey). For the Filipino sports executive, see Dickie Bachmann.
Richard Bachman's author photo actually features Richard Manuel, a builder and friend of Stephen King's literary agent, Kirby McCauley.[1] The photo is credited to Bachman's wife, Claudia Inez Bachman.

Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King, adopted in 1977 for the novel Rage. King hid the link between himself and Bachman, until allowing for his identification in 1985. He collected the first four Bachman novels into The Bachman Books. Rage became controversial for being about a school shooting and was allowed to go out of print after the 1997 Heath High School shooting. Three more novels were published under the Bachman name.

King portrays an unrelated character named Richard Bachman in the third season of the FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2010).

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