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Occupation
  
Writer

Spouse
  
Lydia Root (m. 1824)

Role
  
Minister


Name
  
Charles Finney

Genre
  
Fantasy

Education
  
Yale University

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Born
  
Charles Grandison Finney December 1, 1905 Sedalia, Missouri, U.S. (
1905-12-01
)

Died
  
August 16, 1875, Oberlin, Ohio, United States

Parents
  
Sylvester Finney, Rebecca Finney

Books
  
Power from on High, Lectures on revivals of religion, Autobiography of Charles G Finney, Finney's systematic theology, Lectures on Revival

Similar People
  
Lyman Beecher, George Whitefield, Joseph Smith, Dorothea Dix, William Lloyd Garrison

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Charles Grandison Finney (December 1, 1905 – April 16, 1984) was an American news editor and fantasy novelist, the great-grandson of evangelist Charles Grandison Finney. His first novel and most famous work, The Circus of Dr. Lao, won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1935.

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Biography

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Finney was born in Sedalia, Missouri and served in China with the U.S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment (E Company) from 1927 to 1929.

In his memoirs, he notes that The Circus of Dr. Lao was conceived in Tientsin during 1929. After the Army, he worked as an editor for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona from 1930 to 1970.

Some of Finney's papers, with correspondence and photographs, are collected at the University of Arizona Main Library Special Collections, Collection Number: AZ 024, Papers of Charles G. Finney, 1959-1966. The archive includes typed manuscripts of "A Sermon at Casa Grande", "Isabelle the Inscrutable", "Murder with Feathers", ""The Night Crawler", "Private Prince", "An Anabasis in Minor Key", "The Old China Hands", and "The Ghosts of Manacle".

Influence

Finney's work, especially The Circus of Dr. Lao, has been influential on subsequent writers of fantasy. Ray Bradbury admired the novel and anthologised it in The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories; Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes shares with Dr. Lao the setting of a supernatural circus. Arthur Calder-Marshall's The Fair to Middling (1959), Tom Reamy's Blind Voices (1978), Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn (1968) and Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City (2009) were all influenced by Finney's work. 7 Faces of Dr. Lao is the corresponding movie adaptation.

Books

  • The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935).
  • The Unholy City (1937).
  • Past the End of the Pavement, a collection (1939).
  • The Ghosts of Manacle, a collection (1964).
  • The Old China Hands, memoirs (1961).
  • The Magician Out of Manchuria (1968).
  • Short stories

  • "A Sermon at Casa Grande", Point West, September 1963.
  • "Isabelle the Inscrutable", Harper's Magazine, 228:1367 (April 1964) pp. 51–58.
  • "Murder with Feathers", Harper's Magazine 232:1391 (April 1966) pp. 112–113.
  • "The Night Crawler", The New Yorker, December 5, 1959.
  • "Private Prince", The New Yorker, June 24, 1961.
  • "An Anabasis in Minor Key", The New Yorker, March 26, 1960.
  • References

    Charles G. Finney Wikipedia