Anthony Samuel Magistrale is an American academic and writer, known primarily as a biographer of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. Magistrale has worked as an English professor at the University of Vermont since 1983, receiving the Literary Laundry's Award of Distinction in 2011 for his poetry. Magistrale received a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 from Allegheny College, before going on to the University of Pittsburgh to earn his Master of Arts in 1976 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1981. In 2000, Stephen King employed Magistrale as a research assistant. King reported told Magistrale that his iconic fictional Maine town of Derry is based on Bangor, Maine.
