Joe Hill (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies"). Early life. At age 9, Hill appeared in the 1982 film Creepshow, directed by George A. Romero, which co-starred and was written by his father. In his new collection of short stories, Joe Hill shows how insanely good he is at shocking, terrible, whoa, cover-your-mouth-and-gasp endings. Hill was born in 1972 to authors Tabitha King (née Spruce) and Stephen King.He was born in Hermon, Maine and grew up in Bangor, Maine.His younger brother, Owen King, is also a writer.He has an older sister, Naomi King. Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San … (IWW = the folks that brought us the "weekend", and the 8 hour day, and bought it for all of us with their blood and prison time.) He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a six-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. The true story of Joe Hill, IWW activist and songwriter.