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Charles G. Finney (December 1, 1905 – April 16, 1984) was an American news editor and fantasy novelist. His complete name was Charles Grandison Finney, evidently after his great-grandfather, the 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.〔 "Books and Authors", ''The New York Times'', 1936-04-12, page BR12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2007).〕〔 "Lewis is Scornful of Radio Culture: ...", ''The New York Times'', 1936-05-12, page 25. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2007).〕 ==Biography== Finney was born in Sedalia, Missouri and served in China with the U.S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment (E Company) from 1927 to 1929.〔Finney, Charles (1961). ''The Old China Hands''. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p59.〕 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.〔 (NYT obituary ).〕 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". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles G. Finney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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