| 词条 | Charles G. Finney |
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| name = Charles G. Finney | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Charles Grandison Finney | birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|12|01}} | birth_place = Sedalia, Missouri, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|04|16|1905|12|01}} | death_place = Pima, Arizona, U.S. | nationality = | occupation = Writer | period = | genre = Fantasy | subject = | awards = }}Charles Grandison Finney (December 1, 1905 – April 16, 1984) was an American news editor and fantasy novelist, the great-grandson of evangelist Charles Grandison Finney.[1] His first novel and most famous work, The Circus of Dr. Lao, won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1935.[2][3] BiographyFinney was born in Sedalia, Missouri and served in China with the U.S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment (E Company) from 1927 to 1929.[4] In his memoirs, he notes that The Circus of Dr. Lao was conceived in Tientsin during 1929. After the Army, he worked as an editor for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona from 1930 to 1970.[5] Some of Finney's papers, with correspondence and photographs, are collected at the University of Arizona Main Library Special Collections, Collection Number: AZ 024, Papers of Charles G. Finney, 1959-1966. The archive includes typed manuscripts of "A Sermon at Casa Grande", "Isabelle the Inscrutable", "Murder with Feathers", "The Night Crawler", "Private Prince", "An Anabasis in Minor Key", "The Old China Hands", and "The Ghosts of Manacle". InfluenceFinney's work, especially The Circus of Dr. Lao, has been influential on subsequent writers of fantasy. Ray Bradbury admired the novel and anthologized it in The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories; Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes shares with Dr. Lao the setting of a supernatural circus. Arthur Calder-Marshall's The Fair to Middling (1959), Tom Reamy's Blind Voices (1978),[6] Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn (1968)[7] and Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City (2009)[8] were all influenced by Finney's work. 7 Faces of Dr. Lao is the corresponding film adaptation. Selected worksBooks
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References1. ^https://www.librarything.com/author/finneycharlesgrandis 2. ^"Books and Authors". The New York Times. April 12, 1936 (p. BR12). 3. ^"Lewis is Scornful of Radio Culture: ...". The New York Times. May 12, 1936 (p. 25). 4. ^Charles Finney. The Old China Hands. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961 (p. 59). 5. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/19/obituaries/charles-g-finney-dies-at-78-wrote-the-circus-of-dr-lao.html UPI obituary]. The New York Times. April 19, 1984. 6. ^"Finney, Charles G." in Brian Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature. Scarecrow Press, 2005 (p. 150). 7. ^Cathy Dunn MacRae. Presenting Young Adult Fantasy Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1998 (p. 324). 8. ^Jeffrey Renaud. "Lethem Exits the Unknown with Omega". Comic Book Resources. July 18, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-21. 9. ^1 [https://harpers.org/author/charlesgcharlesgrandisonfinney/ "Charles G. (Charles Grandison) Finney"]. Harper's Magazine (harpers.org). Further reading
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