11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date). It is the 60th book published by Stephen King, his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name. The novel was announced on King's official site on March 2, 2011. A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011, and another excerpt was published in the October 28, 2011, issue of Entertainment Weekly. The novel was published on November 8, 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller. It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 16 weeks. 11/22/63 won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel[8] and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Set in
- ★Dallas, Texas · United States★ primarySite of the Kennedy assassination; Jake's mission destination
- ★Dallas · United States★ primaryClimactic setting of JFK assassination on November 22, 1963
- Lisbon Falls, Maine · United StatesLocation of the time-travel rabbit hole; Jake enters the past here on September 9, 1958
- Jodie, Texas · United StatesFictional small Texas town where Jake settles and teaches school while waiting to stop Oswald
