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	KYLIT - A site devoted to Kentucky Writers
		Tevis was left behind in a San Francisco hospital due to a rheumatic heart, and he stayed there for a year without his family (Williams 2).
		Tevis died of lung cancer in 1984 at the age of 56 (Ellis, "Kentucky").
		Tevis began writing again and was in better physical and emotional health than he had been in years.
	www.english.eku.edu /SERVICES/KYLIT/TEVIS.HTM (1257 words)

	Walter Tevis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 - August 8, 1984) was an American author.
		His father, a Madison County, Kentucky native, brought his family back to Kentucky from San Francisco when Walter Tevis was ten years old.
		Tevis spent his last years in New York as a full-time writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Tevis (319 words)

	Walter Tevis
		Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 - 1984) was an American author.
		His father, a Madison County native, brought his family back to Kentucky from San Francisco when Walter Tevis was ten years old.
		Walter Tevis died of lung cancer in 1984.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wa/walter_tevis.html (252 words)

	Bookslut \| The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
		Tevis himself struggled with alcoholism and social alienation in the years before he wrote The Queen's Gambit; it was obviously a theme close to his heart.
		Tevis succeeds admirably in this regard because he never loses sight of the humanity of the addict.
		Tevis was never as accomplished as Steinbeck or Nabokov, though his career suggests he never really wanted to be.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2003_08_000381.php (708 words)

	Walter Tevis
		Walter Tevis (February 28, 1928 - 1984) was an American author.
		Tevis graduated from Model High School in 1945 and entered UK after serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
		He was an English literature professor at the University of Ohio from 1965 to 1978, where he received an MFA.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/w/wa/walter_tevis.html (249 words)

	Worthington Library salutes Walter Tevis
		Tevis insisted, Kowars said, "that later editions of The Hustler carry a preface that said 'I made up Minnesota Fats just as Walt Disney made up Donald Duck.'" He insisted that any later publications say that Rudolf Wanderone was a fraud and that Minnesota Fats was a figment of his imagination...
		Tevis' weakened health would inform his second novel, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the story of a frail extraterrestrial which was later adapted to film by Nicholas Roeg starring David Bowie.
		Tevis died in 1984 and is buried in Kentucky.
	www.bowiewonderworld.com /press/00/040101waltertevis.htm (1245 words)

	Walter Tevis
		Walter Tevis was born in San Francisco in 1928 and lived in the Sunset District, close to Golden Gate Park and the sea, for the first ten years of his life.
		Walter traveled across country alone by train at the age of eleven to rejoin his family and felt the shock of entering the Appalachian culture when he enrolled in the local school.
		At the age of seventeen, Walter became a carpenter's mate in the Navy, serving on board the USS Hamil in Okinawa.
	www.waltertevis.com (2081 words)

	A life, and an oeuvre, plagued by shadows - The Boston Globe
		Walter Tevis never thought of himself as a science fiction writer.
		And when he wrote of aliens among us, or of the end of civilization, he did so as though he were inventing the form; wrote, in Jonathan Lethem's words, "with a sort of beautiful literary amnesia.
		Though Tevis had had a huge hit with "The Hustler" (novel 1959, film 1961), "The Man Who Fell to Earth" was multiply rejected.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/05/16/a_life_and_an_oeuvre_plagued_by_shadows (899 words)

	Ohioana Library Ohio Legacy Series: Walter Tevis, An Essay by June Langford Berkley
		Before I became his student, I was introduced to Walter Tevis at a professional conference in Athens (I was serving my own time as a high school English teacher in that era).
		Walter Tevis surely knew that the gift and impact of mentors can scarcely be measured by public recognition, for that is too rarely granted, even to the worthy.
		Like his students, Tevis had from time to time - and I particularly noted it in our last interview several months before his death - a deep awareness that, as one critic predicted, his own work would have its hour and would continue to be rediscovered by subsequent generations of readers.
	www.ohioana.org /features/legacy/wtevis.asp (1189 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mockingbird: Books: Walter Tevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The adventure is terrific, the plot is solid and the twist, although it doesn't exactly come as a surprise, it puts the reader in the perspective of the drugged population for a moment who would not dare to imagine.
		Tevis accomplishes this easily by making everything else so perfect that the reader, while marvelling at what he is reading, is distracted from the direction it is taking him in.
		All in all, Tevis creates an all too believable image of the future:- Mankind paying a price for not thinking far ahead enough and their children paying the price for their mistakes.
	www.amazon.ca /Mockingbird-Walter-Tevis/dp/0345431626 (1480 words)

	The Fiction of Douglas Lain - From Tevis to Dick - an essay
		Walter Tevis and Philip K. Dick are both modernists in so much as they are both concerned with arriving at final meanings, exposing truths.
		Tevis may be a humanist and Dick a theist, but both men are concerned with meaning.
		Between the Enlightened Humanist position of Tevis and the paranoid mystical position of Dick is the radical skepticism of Roeg.
	www.douglaslain.com /from-tevis-to-dick.html (2307 words)

	Amazon.com: The Hustler: Books: Walter Tevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Tevis' well written treatment of winning and losing as it happens on the green cloth and in the gray matter is realistic and detailed.
		Tevis presents life's dilemmas plainly, tells us what is unacceptable, makes us self-satisfied, then like all great artists, presents a little more complex dilemma, then asks us to make the choice again.
		Walter wherever you are, (and I believe you died a few years back), thank you.
	www.amazon.com /Hustler-Walter-Tevis/dp/1560254734 (1592 words)

	Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant: Walter Tevis
		James Sallis is crazy about Walter Tevis, a native San Franciscan, pointing out that by Tevis's own admission, The Man Who Fell to Earth is "a very disguised autobiography." The now famous book had been rejected multiple times by publishers, despite Tevis's remarkable success with The Hustler.
		Ahem -- we also like to lay claim to Walter Tevis, who was in fact a genius, here in Kentucky.
		Anyway, Tevis' SF novels have been back in print for a few years now in quite nice editions.
	www.edrants.com /reluctant/001100.html (416 words)

	The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
		Some are mysteries where murder is committed during a game, or fantasies where the pieces have personalities, even a few where plot and characters painstakingly correspond to the moves and pieces of an entire game describable in chess notation.
		The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis is a novel about a chess prodigy, a fictional American girl who learns chess from the janitor in a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s.
		Tevis' descriptions of how Beth visualizes her chessboard, the material of pieces, their situation, and (as she matures) the dynamic lines of force growing out of their positions and powers, I find clear and compelling.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Tevis/Queens-Gambit.html (684 words)

	TEVIS MSS.
		The Tevis mss., 1945-1985, consist primarily of the writings of author Walter S. Tevis, 1928-1984.
		Tevis wrote several novels, and contributed numerous short stories and articles to magazines.
		Published novels are arranged by various forms of the book from original manuscript to drafts to galleys, followed by related notes, outlines, synopses, ending with alternate forms of the book, such as plays, screenplays or teleplays.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/tevis.html (1063 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT by Walter Tevis
		On a long plane trip, I started THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT by Walter Tevis, a just-published novel I'd bought on impulse.
		Tevis --- author of THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH and THE HUSTLER (and, later, THE COLOR OF MONEY) --- had written a book that, very simply, could not be put down.
		Tevis was a storyteller whose genius was to tell great stories; there's nothing between you and the people.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/1400030609.asp (516 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell to Earth at Epinions.com
		Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell to Earth
		I wonder if Walter Tevis is a religious man. I wonder that because The Man Who Fell To Earth seems to have many undertones of religion.
		So my journey from sitting at my computer to reading Walter Tevis' The Man Who Fell To Earth was a simple one.
	www.epinions.com /Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_by_Walter_Tevis (190 words)

	Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives: Notes on The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
		I can't remember now how this book was recommended to me. I thought it had been mentioned by Glen, but now I can't find any mention of it on his site.
		Tevis does an admirable job of making the many chess matches into compelling storytelling.
		I'm not a chess player, but I was intrigued by his accounts of strategy and of the shifting balance of power between two players.
	96db.com /blog/ReadingNotes/0375-0.htm (271 words)

	Jamie Tevis Remembers Walter Tevis: An Audio Interview by John Ray
		Jamie Tevis Remembers Walter Tevis: An Audio Interview by John Ray
		Listen to the Jamie Tevis interview with John Ray, 2003
		Listen to the Walter Tevis interview with Don Swaim, 1984
	wiredforbooks.org /jamietevis (155 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Queen's Gambit: a Novel: Books: Walter Tevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		I have little to no experience playing chess, but Tevis writes out the gameplay in a way that is easy to follow.
		I read Tevis' brilliant "Mockingbird" many years ago, went looking for his other books, and found this one.
		No one had read it or heard of it, and I always considered it a lost gem, re-reading it every few years.
	www.amazon.ca /Queens-Gambit-Novel-Walter-Tevis/dp/1400030609 (1247 words)

	Amazon.com: Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact): Books: Walter Tevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		One such vignette - I don't want to give anything away - but it involves a toaster factory inefficiently run by robots that Paul comes upon in his travels; what Paul discovers at the toaster factory is such a metaphor for our 21st-century world, it left me awed.
		Tevis died in 1984, at the age of 56.
		An interesting factoid: the book was written in 1980, while the Twin Towers were standing, but in Tevis' 25th-century New York, the Empire State Building is the tallest building in the world.
	www.amazon.com /Mockingbird-Del-Impact-Walter-Tevis/dp/0345431626 (1974 words)

	Walter Tevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Professeur de littérature à l'université d'Ohio, Walter Tevis fait ses débuts d'écrivain dans la revue Galaxy en 1957, publiant son premier roman "L'homme tombé du ciel" en 1963, roman qui sera adapté au cinéma avec David Bowie dans le rôle principal.
		Puis Tevis cesse d'écrire pour faire un retour en 1980 avec un nouveau roman "Mockingbird", mais cette nouvelle carrière est interrompue en 1984 quand Walter Tevis succombe à une crise cardiaque.
		L'oeuvre de Tevis dans le domaine de la SF est donc constituée de seulement trois romans et quelques nouvelles, mais il a écrit aussi les romans desquels ont été tirés les célèbres films "L'arnaqueur" et "La couleur de l'argent", tous deux avec Paul Newman.
	home.nordnet.fr /~aleyssens/auteur/tevis.htm (285 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Queen's Gambit: Livres en anglais: Walter Tevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Amazon.fr : The Queen's Gambit: Livres en anglais: Walter Tevis
		?Tevis traps us in the breathless drama of the moment and makes us feel the same intense involvement his characters feel.?
		Walter Tevis nous entraine dans le monde des championnats d'échecs avec brio : on ne s'ennuie pas une minute !
	www.amazon.fr /Queens-Gambit-Walter-Tevis/dp/1400030609 (442 words)

	zwei literarische begegnungen
		Walter Tevis hat ein Faible für Spieler und auch in seinem bekanntesten Buch The Hustler, das unter dem Titel Haie der Großstadt mit Paul Newman als scheiterndes Billard-As Eddie verfilmt wurde, geht es um Sieg oder Niederlage im Leben und im Spiel.
		Merkwürdig abstrakt bleibt auch die Darstellung der Turnierszene in Amerika, in der Beth' nach ein paar Erfolgen in offenen Turnieren bereits als amerikanische Meisterin gehandelt wird.
		Oder ist es Tevis' nicht immer überzeugende Zeichnung der Charaktere, die oft willkürlich wirkt, z.B. wenn Mrs.
	www.karlonline.org /kol21.htm (1497 words)

	Book of the Week (3/21/99): Walter Tevis: Mockingbird
		Book of the Week (3/21/99): Walter Tevis: Mockingbird
		I first got introduced to this book back when I was way too young to digest it properly.
		I normally don't like to describe books in such terms as "an anthem to the human spirit", but this one screams for such a description.
	www.thegline.com /book-of-the-week/1999/03-21-1999.htm (274 words)

	Walter Tevis Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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	bookclub@ket: The Man Who Fell to Earth Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In Remembering Walter Tevis: Finding the Stories That Must Be Told
		, June Langford Berkley, a former student in Tevis’ University of Ohio creative writing class, examines the demons in the author’s life and how they affected his writing.
		Tevis’ widow claims The Hustler character was entirely fictional
	www.ket.org /bookclub/books/2002_jan/extras.htm (107 words)

	Head Butler - Books
		On a long plane trip, Butler started reading "The Queen’s Gambit." The author was Walter Tevis, who had also written "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and "The Hustler" (and who would later write "The Color of Money").
		Nor had he seen the movies made from them.
		Butler believes that you will care about Beth Harmon more than any fictional character you've encountered in years and years.
	www.headbutler.com /archives/walter_tevis.asp (679 words)

	Salon Books \| Screened out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Oddly, in the 1950s and '60s, Frank Sinatra made a habit of starring in films made from underrated novels: Both James Jones' "Some Came Running" and Roderick Thorp's "The Detective" are worth a closer look.
		That the same obscure novelist should hide behind good films as utterly different as "The Hustler" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" seems impossible.
		On top of that, his sequel to "The Hustler," "The Color of Money," was filmed by another good director, Martin Scorsese -- too bad all he took from that book was the title.
	www.salon.com /books/bag/1999/10/18/lethem/index.html (636 words)

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