Jack Finney

Walter Braden (Jack) Finney
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	(1911-10-02)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)

Drame

• Telephone Roulette: A Comedy in One Act (1956)
• This Winter's Hobby: A Play (1966)

Filmovi temeljeni na Finneyevim pričama

• 5 Against the House (1955, rež. Phil Karlson, ul. Guy Madison, Kim Novak i Brian Keith)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• House of Numbers (1957, rež. Russell Rouse, ul. Jack Palance)
• Good Neighbor Sam (1964, rež. David Swift, ul. Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider i Dorothy Provine)
• Assault on a Queen (1966, rež. Jack Donohue, temeljen na The U-19's Last Kill, ul. Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi i Anthony Franciosa)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978e)
• Maxie (1985, rež. Paul Aaron film, ul. Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin i Ruth Gordon; temeljen na Marion's Wall)
• Body Snatchers (1993, remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
• The Love Letter (1998, TV-film, rež. Dan Curtis, ul. Campbell Scott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Dukes i Estelle Parsons; temeljen na istoimenoj priči)
• The Invasion (2007, remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Vanjske veze

• Jack Finney na sajtu IMDb
• Jack Finney na Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Grimes, William (17 November 1995). „Jack Finney, 84, Sci-Fi Author Of Time-Travel Tales, Dies”. The New York Times. Pristupljeno 18 October 2011.  Obituary.
• Obituaries from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, San Francisco Examiner, Dayton Daily News, and The New York Times Arhivirano 2010-08-14 na Wayback Machine-u
• Camilletti, Fabio (2010). „Present Perfect. Time and the Uncanny in American Science and Horror Fiction of the 1970s (Finney, Matheson, King)”. Image [&] Narrative 11 (3): 25–41. ISSN 1780-678X. Arhivirano iz originala na datum 2016-03-04. Pristupljeno 2014-09-11.  Academic journal article on time-slip in science fiction, with special reference to Time and Again and The Love Letter.
• Corrigan, Maureen (17 October 2011). „The Sad Lesson Of 'Body Snatchers': People Change”. Fresh Air. Pristupljeno 18 October 2011.  An appreciation of Jack Finney on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
• „Jack Finney”. Arhivirano iz originala na datum 2012-01-04. Pristupljeno 8 March 2012.  Annotated bibliography with other materials.