Name: FINNEY, Walter Braden Aged: 84
Born: October 2, 1911 Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Died: November 14, 1995 Where: Greenbrae, California
Interred: _ _ _
Married: Marguerite Guest When: _ _ _
Awarded: The 1987 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

An excellent, main-stream writer whose Science Fiction and Fantasy stories were broad based and sold to the likes of Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, and McCall's. A time travel exponent, Finney's stories covered a wide range of adventures and many of his novels became motion pictures. The Body Snatchers (Invasion of) was Finney's only SF movie, but his adventure stories did better, Five Against the House and Assault on the Queen.

Jack's most memorable work was the novel, Time and Again, sequeled in 1995 by From Time to Time, and a collection of his short stories was published as The Third Level. In 1968, the novel The Woodrow Wilson Dime explored time travel via parallel worlds. Like Avram Davidson, Jack had a taste for sensational stories and mysteries of the past, collecting some of those in Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mine here

OBITUARY: San Francisco Examiner, Dayton Daily News, The Pittsburg Post Gazette, and New York Times here. Also the L.A. Times: Nov 17, 1995, A, p32, and Variety: Dec 4-10, 1995, p64.

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