What 1996 Stephen King novel was first issued in six monthly paperback volumes?

What 1996 Stephen King novel was first issued in six monthly paperback volumes? The answer is The Green Mile.

Rather than appearing first as one complete book, The Green Mile was released as a six-part paperback serial by Signet Books. The first installment, The Two Dead Girls, arrived on March 28, 1996, and the final installment, Coffey on the Mile, followed on August 29. A collected single-volume edition appeared in 1997.

The novel is narrated by Paul Edgecombe, a death-row supervisor looking back on his encounter with John Coffey, an unusually large and gentle prisoner with mysterious healing abilities. Its setting, moral questions, and supernatural elements blend prison drama, Southern Gothic, and magical realism.

The installment format drew on the tradition of serialized fiction associated with writers such as Charles Dickens. It also created suspense because readers had to wait for each continuation instead of reading ahead to the ending. The story later became the basis for the 1999 film starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, though the original six-volume publication remains one of the book's defining features.