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Walter Tevis: A Writer’s Gambit

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Explores the complex life and brilliant career of this Kentucky writer.

Explores the complex life and brilliant career of this Kentucky writer. His novels The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Color of Money were all adapted into major motion pictures, and The Queen’s Gambit has become one of the most popular and critically acclaimed television series of the past decade.

07/13/2021

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