[DouglasKC]

He tends to keep his politics pretty low-key, from what I've seen. I'm a longtime reader of his work, and have never run across him making an out and out political statement in interviews and the like. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that he probably trends left-of-center, but not in a moonbat way.

I think he's becoming more lefty as he gets older. I used to love his books and his early ones seemed to be apolitical and sometimes even to the right a bit. But I stopped reading because more and more leftist views started cropping up in his works. I can't think of anything specifically, but it's there.

[A Jovial Cad]

Thanks for the reply. You may be right; I'm probably grading him on a curve because I'm so used to most "blockbuster" novels containing blatantly pro-leftist messages, with the exception of Tom Clancy. I do know that the Flagg character in The Stand was described as a kind of washed up hippie before the bad stuff started.