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Walter Stone Tevis Jr. (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Learn about the life and works of Walter Tevis, a prolific and influential author of science fiction novels such as The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Queen's Gambit. He was born in San Francisco, served in the Navy, taught in Kentucky and Ohio, and died in New York.
Dec 23, 2020 · Tevis was a family man who played board games and fished with his kids; a popular professor of writing and literature at Ohio University in Athens; a cat-lover and movie aficionado;...
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman , or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism , chess , drug addiction and alcoholism.
- Walter S. Tevis
- 1983
- (151K)
- August 8, 1984
- February 28, 1928
- The Queen's Gambit.
- The Man Who Fell to Earth.
- Mockingbird.
- The Hustler (Eddie Felson, #1)
Explore the books by Walter Tevis, the author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Mockingbird and more. Learn about his life, his themes, his style and his legacy.
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Walter Tevis has 53 books on Goodreads with 364098 ratings. Walter Tevis’s most popular book is The Queen's Gambit.
