Walter Tevis Walter Tevis

A famous American novelist. Three of his six novels have been adapted into major films: liar, the color of money and the man who takes root. The fourth "Queens game" was adapted into a mini series of the same name and broadcast on Netflix in 2020. His books have been translated into at least 18 languages.
Tevez was born in San Francisco, California in 1928 and grew up in the sunset area near the Pacific and Golden Gate Park. When he was ten years old, his parents put him in Stanford childrens sanatorium for a year, and then they returned to Kentucky, where Madison County gave the family a piece of land. At the age of 11, Tevez traveled across the country by train alone to reunite with his family.
As World War II drew to a close, 17-year-old Tevez served in the Pacific theater as an assistant to a naval carpenter aboard the Hamilton.
After discharge, he graduated from the model experiment school in 1945. He entered the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts (1949) and a master of Arts (1954) and studied with A.B. Guthrie, Jr., the author of big sky. When Tevez was a student, he worked in a swimming pool and published a story about the swimming pool, which was written for Guthries class. Later, he attended the Iowa Writers seminar, where he received a master of Arts in Creative Arts in 1960.
After graduation, Tevez wrote for the Kentucky highway department. He teaches courses in science, English, sports and other fields at science hill, horseville, Owen and Carlisle small town middle schools in Kentucky. He has also taught at the University of North Kentucky, the University of Kentucky and South Connecticut State University.
Tevez married Jamie Griggs in 1957. They lived together for 20 years before they divorced. They have two children, a son William and a daughter Julie
From 1965 to 1978, Tevez taught English literature and creation at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and was appointed a university professor. As a member of the writers Association, he spent his last years in New York as a full-time writer. He died of lung cancer in 1984 and was buried in Richmond, Kentucky

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Superb, TIME OUT

Gripping reading . . . Nabokovs The Defense and Zweigs The Royal Game are the classics. Now joining them is The Queens Gambit, FINANCIAL TIMES

The Queens Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it

Mesmerizing, NEWSWEEK

Dont pick this up if you want a nights sleep, SCOTSMAN

More exciting than any thriller Ive seen lately; more than that, beautifully written

What Walter Tevis did for pool in The Hustler, he does for chess in The Queens Gambit, PLAYBOY

A psychological thriller, NEW YORK TIMES

Walter Tevis is famous for writing The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth, but this is my favorite book of his. It is about a girl who, guided by her somewhat unreliable mother, becomes a child prodigy at chess. Even if you do not know how to play chess, it is a great thriller, Literary Hub

Tevis was a great storyteller -- Lionel Shriver

This growth story explores the real price behind genius. twenty century fifty In the late S, the young Beth Harmon was abandoned and entrusted to an orphanage in Kentucky. She has an amazing talent for chess and is addicted to the sedatives given to children by the government. Bess is troubled by the devil in her heart. Under the dual effect of medicine and obsession, she has become an impressive, skilled and charming abandoned child, and is determined to break the traditional boundaries established by the male dominated chess world.

From the author of THE HUSTLER, THE QUEENS GAMBIT is a modern classic about a troubled chess prodigy and her battle to survive

Superb Time Out

The Queens Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it Michael Ondaatje

Dont pick this up if you want a nights sleep Scotsman

When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct .

For Beth, theres more at stake than merely winning and losing.