11/22/63
by Stephen King
Buy on Amazon11/22/63 is a novel by American author Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963. It is the 60th book published by Stephen King, his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name. The novel required considerable research to accurately portray the late 1950s and early 1960s. King commented on the amount of research it required, saying "I've never tried to write anything like this before. It was really strange at first, like breaking in a new pair of shoes."
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Goodreads Choice Awards — 2011 · goodreads.com
"The most rewarding books are the ones where the finished story almost lives up to the idea that sparked it. I felt that way about "11/22/63" and "Bag of Bones.""
By the Book: Stephen King · nytimes.com
"This is an interesting one and quite different. It’s about the John F. Kennedy assassination. The twist is that you have a history teacher from today who finds a portal that allows him to go back to a date in 1958. If he stays there, even for a long time, when he returns only a couple of minutes has passed in our time. Every time he goes back, he resets what he’s done in the 1950s and he always comes back out at the same time, on the same date. Once he’s convinced that it’s working, he gets the idea that he’s going to live there for a few years and save Kennedy from being assassinated. So he follows Lee Harvey Oswald; all the things that happened in real life happens there as well. So this high school teacher is trying to piece the puzzle together to see who is actually the assassin. It’s a very special book. Yes, it’s almost like reading a nonfiction book about the assassination, but you have this character sneaking around and trying to solve the puzzle of who did it and how to stop it."
The Best Stephen King Books · fivebooks.com