What is the name of Stephen King's first novel?

Stephen King’s first novel was Carrie. Published by Doubleday on April 5, 1974, the horror novel introduced readers to Carrie White, a bullied teenager with telekinetic powers, and launched King’s career as a major bestselling author.

King originally began Carrie as a short story intended for Cavalier magazine. He abandoned the manuscript after writing only a few pages, but his wife, Tabitha King, retrieved the pages from the trash and encouraged him to continue. He expanded the idea into a novel, drawing on memories of two girls he had known in high school while shaping Carrie’s isolation and abuse.

Carrie was King’s first published novel, though it was not the first novel he wrote. The Long Walk was written earlier, during his university years, but it appeared later under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. Carrie’s 1974 hardback had a print run of 30,000 copies; the 1976 film adaptation helped drive the paperback into bestseller territory and made the novel widely known.