Jack Finney (1) (1911–1995)
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Jack Finney was born on October 2, 1911 with the given name John Finney. His father died when he was three years old and he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honor of his father. He attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. After moving to New York and working in the advertising industry, he mostra altro began writing stories for popular magazines like Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post and McCall's. His first novel, "Five Against the House" (1954), told the story of five college students who plot to rob a casino in Reno. A year later he published "The Body Snatchers" which was later reissued as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Many critics interpreted the insidious infiltration by aliens as a cold-war allegory that dramatized America's fear of a takeover by Communists. Mr. Finney maintained that the novel was nothing more than popular entertainment. The 1956 film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was remade twice. With "Time and Again," Mr. Finney won the kind of critical praise and attention not normally accorded to genre fiction. Finney died November 16, 1995 of pneumonia and emphysema at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 84. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Jack Finney
I'm Scared 9 copie
The Third Level [short story] 7 copie
Such Interesting Neighbors 2 copie
Where the Cluetts Are 2 copie
Second Chance 2 copie
Hey, Look at Me! 2 copie
Novels by Jack Finney: Time and Again, From Time to Time, Of Missing Persons, The Body Snatchers (2010) 1 copia
The Widow's Walk 1 copia
Lunch Hour Magic [short story] 1 copia
Home Alone [novelette] 1 copia
Behind the News 1 copia
Opere correlate
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Collaboratore — 263 copie
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 7: Magical Wishes (1891) — Collaboratore — 90 copie
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1954, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1954) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories (2012) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Times 4: Four Science Fiction Tales — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Mystery and Suspense — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Finney, Jack (birth)
Finney, Walter Braden - Altri nomi
- ジャック・フィニイ
ジャック フィニイ - Data di nascita
- 1911-10-02
- Data di morte
- 1995-11-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Greenbrae, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Mill Valley, California, USA
Galesburg, Illinois, USA - Istruzione
- Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA
- Attività lavorative
- science fiction writer
novelist - Breve biografia
- Jack Finney was a prolific writer best known for his science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers (1955) and Time and Again (1970).Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.
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