Jess Rider

Jess Rider is a supporting character who first appears in Chapter 2 of the Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand by Stephen King. He is the biological father of Frannie Goldsmith's child, the eventual Peter Goldsmith-Redman. As a writer college student who impregnates his girlfriend, he is certainly a semi-autobiographical version of King himself.

Story Arc
Jess Rider is a 20-year-old published poet and student at the University of New Hampshire who had been dating his girlfriend, Frannie Goldsmith, for some time when they had sex on the beach of her hometown, Ogunquit, Maine. He rides a 10-speed bicycle and wears blue chambray workshirts and gold-rimmed glasses, and he is obsessed with his vision of himself as Lord Byron, a Great Romantic.

On June 17, 1990, he rents a room at the Lighthouse Motel in Ogunquit, in hopes Frannie will spend the week with him there, but she refuses after revealing she is pregnant, news which startles him. He does ask her to marry him and says he loves her. When she makes fun of him, he slaps her, but he later apologizes. (Chapter 2)

Complete and Uncut Edition

 * Chapter 2 - first appearance; learns Frannie is pregnant with his child