Walter Tevis

Walter Stone Tevis ( born February 28, 1928 in San Francisco, California; † August 8, 1984 ) was an American writer.

His father, who was originally from Madison County, Kentucky, brought his family back from San Francisco to Kentucky when Walter Tevis was ten years old.

After serving during World War II on the Pacific, he finished his education in 1945 at the Model High School and studied at the University of Kentucky. As a student Tevis worked in a local billiard and published a story about pool table, which he had written for AB Guthrie's writing seminar. After his master's degree at the University of Tevis wrote for the Highway Department of Kentucky and taught in Science Hill, Hawesville, Irvine, Carlisle and then at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

From 1965 to 1978 he taught English literature at Ohio University in Athens, from which he received another master's degree. He wrote several novels, three of which the template to the same cinema films were: The Hustler (1959) and The Color of Money (English: The Color of Money, 1984) - both are about the invented billiards player " Fast Eddy " Felson - and the science fiction novel the Man Who fell to Earth (English: the Man who fell to Earth, 1963). He also wrote a Mockingbird (1980 ), Far From Home (1981 ), The Steps of the Sun ( 1983) and The Queen's Gambit (1983).

He was nominated in 1980 for his novel Mockingbird for the Nebula Award.

He spent his final years in New York as a professional writer.

Walter Tevis died in 1984 from lung cancer. He was born in Richmond, Kentucky, buried. In 1991 he was admitted posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Billiard Congress of America.