Jack Finney
Jack Finney; Walter Braden Finney actually ( born October 2, 1911 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † November 16, 1995 in Greenbrae, California ) was an American writer. He wrote successful thrillers, detective novels and comedies, which were filmed in the 1950s and 1960s in Hollywood, but also science fiction novels.
Life
His birth name was John Finney. They gave him when he was three years old, in honor of his early deceased father whose first name Walter Braden; but Jack was his nickname. He studied at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, then worked in Chicago in advertising and moved to New York City, where he lived as a freelance writer of short stories for Collier's, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines to write about.
His most famous SF novel The Body Snatchers ( the original The Body Snatcher ) described an extraterrestrial invasion and served as a model for the science-fiction film of the Body Snatchers and its remakes three.
Relatively unknown in Germany, but his greatest success in the home is his novel, which tells of a journey through time in the New York of 1882. Originally released in as Time and Again, he was first published in Germany by Heyne as the other shore of the time and later at Bastion - Luebbe as from time to time. Unlike the novel The Time Machine by HG Wells, the journey takes place in the past by means of self-hypnosis, in which the time traveler first everything "forgets" what keeps him in the present. The pivotal point of the journey is the Dakota Building, and The Dakota. The novel is illustrated with photographs and drawings from the New York this time. Ironically, the novel was advertised as " One of the five best crime novels ". A sequel, in which the protagonist of the first book - unsuccessfully - tried to prevent the sinking of the Titanic and the First World War, was published in the German-speaking countries than in the stream of time ( Orig: From Time To Time ).
1987 Finney was the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lived since the 1950s in Mill Valley, California, and died at the age of 84 years of pneumonia.
In Germany, published works
- The million at the sky. (1961)
- Invisible parasites. (1962)
- The House of iron rods. (1962)
- Lend me your husband. (1965)
- The Body Snatchers. (1979, Neuübers. Invisible by parasites)
- The other side of time. (1981)
- From time to time. (1995, Neuübers. From the other shore of the time)
- In the stream of time. (1995)
- Time traces. ( The novels Time and Again and From Time To Time in a band ), Heyne, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-52431-6.