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- Author: Jack Finney Author Record # 279
- Legal Name: Finney, Walter Braden
- Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Birthdate: 2 October 1911
- Deathdate: 14 November 1995
- Language: English
- Webpages:IMDB, Library of Congress, SFE, Wikipedia-EN, writing.upenn.edu
- Used These Alternate Names:
ジャック・フィニイ?Jakku Finii
,Джек Финней?Dzhek Finney
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Jack Finney, 84, Sci-Fi Author Of Time-Travel Tales, Dies
The New York Times, 11/17/95
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Jack Finney, the author of the time-travel novel "Time and Again" and the science-fiction thriller "The Body Snatchers," died yesterday at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 84 and lived in Mill Valley, Calif.
Mr. Finney specialized in thrillers and works of science fiction. Two of his novels, "The Body Snatchers" and "Good Neighbor Sam" became the basis of popular films, but it was "Time and Again" (1970) that won him a devoted following. The novel, about an advertising artist who travels back to the New York of the 1880's, quickly became a cult favorite, beloved especially by New Yorkers for its rich, painstakingly researched descriptions of life in the city more than a century ago.
Mr. Finney, whose original name was Walter Braden Finney, was born in Milwaukee and attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. After moving to New York and working in the advertising industry, he began writing stories for popular magazines like Collier's, The Sat
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Entry updated 11 March 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Walter Braden Finney (1911-1995), whose career began when he was 35; he published his first work in the genre, "Such Interesting Neighbors" for Collier's Weekly, 6 January 1951. Although he is as well known for sf as for anything else, he did not specialize in the field, adapting his highly professional skills to mysteries and general fiction as well. Stories from his first years as a writer of sf can be found in The Third Level (coll 1957; vt The Clock of Time1958) and later ones in I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: Fantasy and Time Stories (coll 1963) – both assembled as About Time: Twelve Stories (omni 1986) – and Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories (coll 1983). Many are evocative tales of escape from an ugly present into a tranquil past, or into a Parallel World, or wistful variants of the theme when the escape fails; the potency of his most famous single tale, "The Third Level" (7 October 1950 Collier's Weekly) – with a third level of p
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