Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories - Softcover

Finney, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671506455 ISBN 13: 9780671506452

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1986

Synopsis

An imaginative reconstruction of the people, events, newspapers, and courts of nineteenth-century America examines such period topics as the scandalous murder of a dentist, a tragic shipwreck, a lunatics ball, and more

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Finney (1911 - 1995) Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his given name was John Finney. After the death of his father when he was three years old he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honour of his father's memory. Despite this, he continued to go by the name "Jack" throughout his life. Finney graduated in 1934 from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and later moved to New York with his family where he worked for an advertising agency. As a writer, Finney's early works were relatively successful, with his first short story, 'The Widow's Walk', winning a contest sponsored by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1946 and his first novel, 5 Against the House (1954), being turned into a film the year after publication. But he is best know as the author of The Body Snatchers, which became the hugely popular and influential film, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. For more information see www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/finney_jack

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0671506455
• ISBN 13: 9780671506452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290