Walter Tevis

Walter Stone Tevis (San Francisco February 28th 1928 - August 8th 1984) is a American writer of Science-fiction and Roman black.

Biographical note

His/her father, born with Madison County, brought back his family to the Kentucky from San Francisco whereas Tevis was 10 years old.

After having taken part in the campaigns of peaceful during the Second world war, Tevis passed a diploma to Model High School in 1945 and entered to the University of Kentucky. Whereas it was student, Tevis worked in a “Eight ball|pool-room” and published a history on billiards written for the course of writing of A.B. Guthrie. After having received its control, Tevis wrote for the Kentucky Highway Department and taught with Science Hill , Hawesville, Irvine, Carlisle, like at the University of Kentucky.

He was professor of literature at the University of Ohio of 1965 to 1978, where he accepted a MFA. He wrote seven novels, including three on an alternative of the same topic. Tevis disappears from the literary circuit during a few years, suffering of alcoholism and living private lessons of writing. It was nominated at the Nebula price for the Best Novel in 1980 for the bird of America . It spent its last year to New York, as a writer with full-time. Walter Tevis died of a Lung cancer in 1984. He is buried with Richmond, in the Kentucky.

Works

Novels

A great melancholy and a taste of the play - even of alcohol - mark each one of its novels.

Romance blacks :

In ze pocket , then the Swindler ( The Hustler )), 1959;
the Color of the money ( The Color off Money ), 1984;

Science fiction :

the Man fallen from the sky ( The Man Who Fell to Earth ), 1963 - Presence of the future N°171, 1973;
the Bird of America ( Mockingbird ), 1980 - I read N°1246, 1981;
Far from the native land ( Far From Home ), 1981 - Presence of the future N°347, 1982;
sun step by step ( The Steps off the Sun ), 1983 - Presence of the future N°374, 1984;
The Queen' S Gambit , 1983.

Films carried out according to its work

the Man who came besides with David Bowie in the main role in 1976;
the Swindler of Robert Rossen with Paul Newman;
the Color of the money of Martin Scorsese with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in 1984.

External bonds

audio Interview of Walter Tevis by Gift Swaim for Radio CBS in 1984 Chronic
on '' the bird of America ''

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