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Walter Tevis

Walter and Jamie Tevis in 1960.
Born February 28, 1928
San Francisco, California, United States
Died August 8, 1984 (aged 56)
New York, USA
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Writing period 1955–1984
Genres Fiction (general), science fiction
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Biography

Tevis was born in San Francisco, California. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. As a child, Walter grew up in San Francisco's Sunset District, near the sea and Golden Gate Park. When he was ten years old, his parents placed him in the Stanford Children's Convalescent home for a year while they returned to Kentucky, where the Tevis family had been given a grant of land in Madison County. The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Madison County is a County located in the US state of Kentucky. At the age of 11, Walter traveled across country alone on a train to rejoin his family.

Near the end of World War II, the 17-year-old Tevis served in the Pacific Theater as a Navy carpenter's mate on board the USS Hamilton. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Pacific Ocean theater was one of four major naval theatres of war of the Second World War that pitted forces of the Japan against those of the United History Hamilton was launched 15 January 1919 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Miss Dolly Hamilton Hawkins great-grand-niece After his discharge, he graduated from Model High School in 1945 and entered the University of Kentucky where he received B. The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public, Co-educational, University, and is also the state's land-grant university located A. and M. A. degrees in English literature and studied with A.B. Guthrie, Jr., author of The Big Sky. Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr ( January 13 1901 &ndash April 26 1991) was an American Novelist, Historian, and The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A B Guthrie Jr. In the book the main characters can be identified as Boone Caudill Jim While a student there, Tevis worked in a pool hall and published a story about pool written for Guthrie's class. A billiard[s], pool or snooker hall (or parlo[u]r or room) (sometimes written poolhall, snookerhall Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles

After graduation, he wrote for the Kentucky Highway Department and taught everything from the sciences and English to physical education in small town Kentucky high schools (Science Hill, Hawesville, Irvine and Carlisle). He married Jamie Griggs in 1957, and they remained together for 27 years.

"The Big Hustle," his pool hall story for Collier's (August 5, 1955), was followed by short stories in Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Galaxy Science Fiction, Playboy, Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post. Collier's Weekly was an American Magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957 Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition Galaxy Science Fiction was a digest-size Science fiction magazine, the creation of noted editor H Playboy is an American Men's magazine, founded in Chicago Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates which has grown into Playboy For other uses see Red Book. Redbook is an American women's magazine published by the Hearst Corporation. The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly Magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8,

After his first novel, The Hustler (Harper & Row, 1959), he followed with The Man Who Fell to Earth, published in 1963 by Gold Medal Books. The Hustler is a 1959 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, later made into a 1961 film of the same title. The Man Who Fell to Earth (ISBN 9780440352815 is a 1963 Science fiction Novel by Walter Tevis about an extraterrestrial who He taught English literature and creative writing at Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio) from 1965 to 1978, where he received an MFA. Ohio University is a public university located in Athens Ohio that is situated on a 1800 acre (7 Athens is a historic College town in the southeastern part of the U

Three of his six novels were the basis of major motion pictures of the same names. The Hustler and The Color of Money (1984) followed the escapades of fictional pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson. This article is about both the book and the film of the same name The Color of Money is a 1984 novel by American writer Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a Sport or Game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into Gambling (or The Man Who Fell to Earth was filmed in 1976 by Nicolas Roeg and again in 1987 as a TV movie. The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 Science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis Nicolas Jack Roeg, BSC (born August 15, 1928 in London) is an English Cinematographer and Film director. In 1987 The Man Who Fell to Earth was made into a pilot for an attempted television series based on the 1976 film and the 1963 science fiction novel by Walter Tevis.

While Tevis was teaching at Ohio University, he became aware that the level of literacy among students was falling at an alarming rate. That observation gave him the idea for Mockingbird (1980), set in a grim and decaying New York City of the 25th Century. Mockingbird is a Science fiction novel by Walter Tevis, published in 1980 by Doubleday The population is declining, no one can read, and robots rule over the drugged, illiterate humans. With the birth rate dropping, the end of the species seems a possibility. Tevis was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1980 for Mockingbird. The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA for the best Science fiction / Fantasy fiction During one of his last televised interviews, he revealed that PBS once planned a production of Mockingbird as a follow-up to their 1979 film of The Lathe of Heaven. The Lathe of Heaven is a 1979 film (released in 1980 based on the 1971 SF novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin.

Tevis also wrote The Steps of the Sun (1983) and The Queen's Gambit (1983). The Queen's Gambit is an American thriller Novel by Walter Tevis His short stories were collected in Far from Home (1981).

Aspects of Tevis' childhood are embedded in The Man Who Fell to Earth, as noted by James Sallis, writing in the Boston Globe:

On the surface, Man is the tale of an alien who comes to earth to save his own civilization and, through adversity, distraction, and loss of faith ("I want to. . . But not enough"), fails. Just beneath the surface, it might be read as a parable of 1950s conventionalism and of the Cold War. One of the many other things it is, in Tevis's own words, is "a very disguised autobiography," the tale of his removal as a child from San Francisco, "the city of light," to rural Kentucky, and of the childhood illness that long confined him to bed, leaving him, once recovered, weak, fragile, and apart. It was also -- as he realized only after writing it -- about his becoming an alcoholic. Beyond that, it is, of course, a Christian parable, and a portrait of the artist. It is, finally, one of the most heartbreaking books I know, a threnody on great ambition and terrible failure, and an evocation of man's absolute, unabridgeable aloneness. [1]

A member of the Authors Guild, Tevis spent his last years in New York City as a full-time writer. He died there of lung cancer in 1984 and is buried in Richmond, Kentucky. Lung cancer is a Disease of uncontrolled Cell growth in tissues of the Lung. Richmond is a city in and the County seat of Madison County, Kentucky, United States. His books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Greek, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Israeli, Turkish, Japanese and Thai. In 2003, Jamie Griggs Tevis published her autobiography, My Life with the Hustler.

Bibliography

Novels

Year Title Notes
1959 The Hustler
1963 The Man Who Fell to Earth
1980 Mockingbird
1983 The Steps of the Sun
1983 The Queen's Gambit
1984 The Color of Money

Short stories

References

  1. ^ Sallis, James. "A life, and an oeuvre, plagued by shadows," Boston Globe (May 16, 2004)

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