Ron McLarty

Biography

Ron McLarty is a novelist and actor, perhaps most recognizable for his role as Sgt. Frank Belson opposite Robert Urich on television’s “Spenser: For Hire.” His novel The Memory of Running, which Stephen King described in Entertainment Weekly as “the best book you can’t read,” is an international bestseller.

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MEMOIR / Summer 2004

Writing Life: Pinch Me; or, How Stephen King Changed My Life

By Ron McLarty

Last year, two days after Christmas and around three that afternoon, I passed out in the foyer of my home in Montclair, New Jersey. I hadn’t even had a drink, and I considered that fact, lying there on the hardwood floor, staring up, coming...