Richard Bachman

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

Bachman was inspired by Bachman–Turner Overdrive, a rock and roll band which King was listening to at the time his publisher asked him to choose a pseudonym on the spot.

Known "facts" about Bachman were that he was born in New York and served a four-year stint in the Coast Guard, which he then followed with ten years in the Merchant Marine.

Bachman finally settled down in rural central New Hampshire, where he ran a medium-sized dairy farm, writing at night.

His fifth novel was dedicated to his wife, Claudia Inez Bachman, who also received credit for the faked author photo on the book jacket.

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.

Two weeks later, King telephoned Brown personally and suggested he write an article about how he discovered the truth, allowing himself to be interviewed.

[1][3] At the time of the announcement in 1985, King was working on Misery, which he had planned to release as a Bachman book,[4] but changed his mind after the outing.

[clarification needed] In 1987, the Bachman novel The Running Man inspired the Paul Michael Glaser film of the same name.

After the 1997 Heath High School shooting, King announced that he would allow Rage to go out of print, fearing that it might inspire similar tragedies.

In 2010, King appeared as Bachman in the third season of the FX television series Sons of Anarchy in a cameo role, the character performing contract work quietly disposing of deceased bodies.

In issue 29 of the comic adaptation of The Stand, Richard "Rich" Bachman appears as one of the top lieutenants of Randall Flagg,[7] replacing the character of Whitney Horgan from the original novel.