Who is Tabitha King from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and what is their importance?

Tabitha King is Stephen King's wife. Tabitha is a writer in her own right, the author of several novels. Stephen King met his wife in college when they both worked in the college library and attended the same writing seminar. Stephen King believes his wife to be a brilliant writer, especially in the sixties when they first met. Tabitha would right about real things, things that mattered, while all their classmates concentrated on abstracts.