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    Walter Braden "Jack" Finney was an American writer known for his science fiction and thriller novels and short stories. His most famous works include The Body Snatchers, which was adapted into the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Time and Again, about time travel to the past. Finney was born in Milwaukee and lived in New York City and California during his career. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1987 and published a sequel to Time and Again in 1995 before passing away from pneumonia and emphysema at age 84.

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    Walter Braden "Jack" Finney was an American writer known for his science fiction and thriller novels and short stories. His most famous works include The Body Snatchers, which was adapted into the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Time and Again, about time travel to the past. Finney was born in Milwaukee and lived in New York City and California during his career. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1987 and published a sequel to Time and Again in 1995 before passing away from pneumonia and emphysema at age 84.

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    Walter Braden "Jack" Finney was an American writer known for his science fiction and thriller novels and short stories. His most famous works include The Body Snatchers, which was adapted into the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Time and Again, about time travel to the past. Finney was born in Milwaukee and lived in New York City and California during his career. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1987 and published a sequel to Time and Again in 1995 before passing away from pneumonia and emphysema at age 84.

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    Walter Braden "Jack" Finney was an American writer known for his science fiction and thriller novels and short stories. His most famous works include The Body Snatchers, which was adapted into the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Time and Again, about time travel to the past. Finney was born in Milwaukee and lived in New York City and California during his career. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1987 and published a sequel to Time and Again in 1995 before passing away from pneumonia and emphysema at age 84.

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    Author
    Walter Braden "Jack"
    Finney (born John Finney;
    October 2, 1911 – November
    14, 1995) was an American
    writer. His best-known works
    are science fiction and thrillers,
    including The Body Snatchers
    and Time and Again. The
    former was the basis for the
    1956 film
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    and its remakes.
    Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
    and given the name John Finney. After his
    father died when Finney was three years old,
    he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in

    Personal Life
    honor of his father, but continued to be
    known as "Jack". He attended Knox College
    in Galesburg, Illinois, graduating in 1934. He
    married Marguerite Guest, and they had two
    children, Kenneth and Marguerite. After
    living in New York City and working for an
    advertising agency there, he moved with his
    family to California in the early 1950s. He
    lived in Mill Valley, California, and died of
    pneumonia and emphysema in
    Greenbrae, California, at the age of 84.
    Finney's first article, "Someone Who Knows Told Me
    …", published in the December 1943 issue of
    Cosmopolitan, reflects the message of the
    Office of War Information's (OWI) "Loose Lips Sink
    Ships" campaign of World War II. As an advertising
    copywriter, Finney was doing his part, driving home
    the point that careless remarks by otherwise patriotic
    citizens can aid enemy agents, resulting in the death
    of US servicemen.

    His story "The Widow's Walk" won a contest sponsored by


    Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1946.[1] His first novel, 5
    Against the House, was published in 1954. It was made into
    a movie the following year.
    Finney's novel The Body Snatchers (1955) was the basis for
    the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers (and its
    remakes).
    Another novel, Assault on a Queen (1959), became the film
    Assault on a Queen with Frank Sinatra as the leader of a
    Finney's greatest success came with his science fiction
    novel Time and Again (1970). It involves time travel to
    the past, a theme he had experimented with previously
    In 1995, twenty-five years after Time and
    in short stories. The novel is notable for Finney's vivid
    Again, Finney published a sequel called
    and detailed picture of life in the city at that time and
    From Time to Time featuring the further
    for the art and photographs supposedly made by
    adventures of Morley, this time
    Morley during his experiences, which are reproduced
    centering on Manhattan in 1912. Finney
    in the pages of the novel.
    died at the age of 84 not long after
    finishing the book.

    In 1987, Finney was given the World Fantasy Award The Third Level, Knox College's science
    for Life Achievement at the fiction and fantasy publication, is named
    for Finney's short story "The Third
    World Fantasy Convention, held in Level", published in
    Nashville, Tennessee.[2] The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Ficti
    on
    Finney's story "Such Interesting Neighbors" in October 1952.
    (Collier's, 6 January 1951) was the basis for the
    second episode of Science Fiction Theatre, entitled
    "Time Is Just a Place".

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