Walter Tevis

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

Life

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

After serving in the Pacific during World War II, he graduated from Model High School in 1945 and attended the University of Kentucky . As a student, Tevis worked at a billiards place and published a story about pool that he wrote for AB Guthrie's writing class. After completing his master's degree from university, Tevis wrote for the Kentucky Highway Department and taught at Science Hill, Hawesville, Irvine, Carlisle and then at the University of Kentucky at 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 were submitting to the same cinema films: The Hustler (Engl .: The Hustler , 1959) and The Color of Money (Engl .: 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 (engl .: the man who fell to Earth , 1963). He also wrote The last of humanity (ger .: Mockingbird 1980) Far From Home (1981), The Steps of the Sun (1983) and The Queen's Gambit (1983).

He was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1980 for his novel The Last of Mankind .

He spent the last years of his life in New York as a full-time writer.

Walter Tevis died of lung cancer in 1984 at the age of 56 . He was buried in Richmond , Kentucky . In 1991 he was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Billiard Congress of America .

bibliography

Novels
  • The Hustler (1959)
    • German: The sharks of the big city. Translated by Bernd Müller. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 13091, 1987, ISBN 3-404-13091-X .
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963)
    • English: Spy from space. Goldmanns Zukunftsromane # 49, 1963. Also as: The man who fell from heaven. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31119, 1963, ISBN 3-548-31119-9 .
  • Mockingbird (1980)
  • The Steps of the Sun (1983)
  • The Queen's Gambit (1983)
  • The Color of Money (1984)
    • German: The color of money. Translated by Joachim Honnef. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 13092, 1987, ISBN 3-404-13092-8 .
collection
  • Far from Home (1981)
Short stories
  • Operation Gold Brick (1957, also called The Goldbrick )
  • The Hustler (1957)
  • The IFTH of OOFTH (1957)
  • The Big Bounce (1958)
  • Far from Home (1958)
  • The Other End of the Line (1961)
    • German: At the other end of the line. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Expedition to Chronos. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3056, 1965.
  • The Scholar's Disciple (1969)
  • The King is Dead (1973)
  • Rent Control (1979)
  • The Apotheosis of Myra (1980)
  • Echo (1980)
  • Out of Luck (1980)
  • A Visit from Mother (1981)
  • Daddy (1981)
  • Sitting in Limbo (1981)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Stone Davis on FindAGrave.com, accessed October 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Tevis, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tevis, Walter Stone (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California, USA
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1984
Place of death New York City