In 2013, Stephen King and his wife pledged $3 million to save their hometown library; by 2016, the renovation had grown into a $9.6 million project with modern facilities
When novelist Stephen King and his wife, Tabitha King, pledged $3 million to renovate the Bangor Public Library in Maine in 2013, the donation came with a condition: the institution had to raise another $6 million. The challenge helped set a wider fundraising effort in motion, with the library meeting its $9 million target in…