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Walter Braden (Jack) Finney
Walter Braden (Jack) Finney
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	2. 10. 1911.; Milwaukee, SAD
Smrt	14. 11. 1995. (dob: 84); Greenbrae, Kalifornija, SAD
Nacionalnost	američka
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	književnik
Opus
1946–1995
Književne vrste	science fiction, triler
Jezik	engleski
Znamenita djela
	The Body Snatchers

Jack Finney (2. oktobar 1911 – 14. novembar 1995) bio je američki književnik čija su specijalnost bili trileri i science fiction, a čije je najpoznatija djelo roman The Body Snatchers, adaptiran u kultni film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Jedan od čestih motiva njegovih djela je bilo vremensko putovanje.

Djela

Novele

"Someone Who Knows Told Me …", Cosmopolitan (članak) (decembar 1943)
"The Widow's Walk", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (jul 1947)
"Breakfast in Bed", Collier's (maj 1948)
"The Little Courtesies", Collier's (jun 1949)
"A Dash of Spring", Cosmopolitan (jun 1949)
"I Like It This Way", Collier's (jun 1950)
"My Cigarette Loves Your Cigarette", Collier's (septembar 1950)
"Such Interesting Neighbors", Collier's (januar 1951)
"One Man Show", Collier's (jun 1951)
"I'm Scared", Collier's (septembar 1951)
"It Wouldn't be Fair", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (novembar 1951)
"Obituary" (co-written with C.J. Durban), Collier's (februar 1952)
"Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (decembar 1952)
"Of Missing Persons" (1955)
"Man of Confidence", Good Housekeeping (septembar 1955)
"Second Chance", Good Housekeeping (april 1956)
"Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket", Good Housekeeping (jun 1956)
"The Love Letter", Saturday Evening Post (1. august 1959)
"The U-19’s Last Kill", Saturday Evening Post (šest dijelova, 22. august - 26. septembar 1959)
"The Other Wife" (The Coin Collector), Saturday Evening Post (30. januar 1960)
"An Old Tune" (Home Alone), McCall's (oktobar 1961)
"Old Enough for Love", McCall's (maj 1962)
"The Sunny Side of the Street", McCall's (oktobar 1962)
"Time Has No Boundaries" (The Face in the Photo), Saturday Evening Post (13. oktobar 1962)
Hey, Look at Me! (1962)
Lunch Hour Magic (1962)
Where the Cluetts Are (1962)

Romani

5 Against the House (1954)
The Body Snatchers (1955)
The House of Numbers (1957) (za film v. House of Numbers)
Assault on a Queen (1959)
Good Neighbor Sam (1963)
The Woodrow Wilson Dime (1968)
Time and Again (1970)
Marion's Wall (1973)
The Night People (1977)
From Time to Time (1995)

Zbirke

The Third Level (1957), u Engleskoj kao The Clock of Time (1958)
I Love Galesburg in the Springtime (1963)
Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories (1983) (članci)
About Time (1986) (priče temeljene na The Third Level i I Love Galesburg in the Springtime)
Three by Finney (1987) (omnibus izdanje The Woodrow Wilson Dime, Marion's Wall i The Night People)