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Charles G. Finney

 
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Charles G. Finney (December 1, 1905 – April 16, 1984) was an American fantasy novelist and newspaperman. His full name was Charles Grandison Finney, evidently in honor of the famous evangelist.

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Biography

Finney was born in Sedalia, Missouri and served in China with the United States Army's 15th Infantry Regiment (E Company)[1] 1927–1929. In his memoirs, he notes that his first novel (and most famous book) The Circus of Dr. Lao was conceived in Tientsin in 1929. After the Army, he worked for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona, 1930–1970, as an editor.[2]

Various 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, including 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".

Selected works

Books

Short stories

  • "A Sermon at Casa Grande" in Point West, September, 1963
  • "Isabelle the Inscrutable" in Harper's, 228:1367 (April 1964) pp. 51-58.
  • "Murder with Feathers" in Harper's 232:1391 (April 1966) pp. 112-113.
  • "The Night Crawler" in The New Yorker, December 5, 1959.
  • "Private Prince" in The New Yorker, June 24, 1961.
  • "An Anabasis in Minor Key" in The New Yorker, March 26, 1960.

Further reading

External links

References

  1. ^ Finney, Charles (1961). The Old China Hands. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p59
  2. ^ NYT obituary http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE2DD1538F93AA25757C0A962948260

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