He lived in Mill Valley, California, and died of pneumonia and emphysema in Greenbrae, California, at the age of 84.įinney's first article, "Someone Who Knows Told Me …", published in the December 1943 issue of Cosmopolitan, reflects the message of the Office of War Information's (OWI) "Loose Lips Sink Ships" campaign of World War II. After living in New York City and working for an advertising agency there, he moved with his family to California in the early 1950s. He married Marguerite Guest, and they had two children, Kenneth and Marguerite.
He attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, graduating in 1934. After his father died when Finney was three years old, he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honor of his father, but continued to be known as "Jack". The former was the basis for the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.įinney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and given the name John Finney. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again.
Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney Octo– November 14, 1995) was an American writer. Noir fiction, science fiction, thrillers, comedy
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