Jack Finney

Jack Finney was an American author born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 2nd, 1911. Having written dozens of novels and short stories, he is best known for his time travel adventure Time and Again and The Body Snatchers, the latter of which has been adapted into several films. The Body Snatchers was published in 1955 and centered on an alien race that subverted humanity by replacing Earth's population with doppelgängers grown from giant plant pods. A year after its release, the book was adapted into the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The film was remade in 1978 starring Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams. A 1993, The Body Snatchers, shared the same title and themes as his 1955 novel, but was otherwise radically different. Another version of The Body Snatchers, The Invasion starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig was released in 2007. Shortly before he died, Finney wrote a sequel to Time and Again titled From Time to Time, which featured the character of Simon Morley who also appeared in the original novel. Jack Finney passed away from pneumonia and emphysema in Greenbrae, California on November 14th, 1995 at the age of eighty-four.

Body of Work

 * The Body Snatchers (1955)
 * Time and Again (1970)
 * From Time to Time (1995)