Charles G. Finney

Charles Grandison Finney (December 1, 1905 – April 16, 1984) was an American news editor and fantasy novelist, the great-grandson of 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.

Charles Finney's books included, "The Unholy City," "Past the End of the Pavement", "The Ghosts of Manacle", "The Magician Out of Manchuria" and "The Old China Hands." But his masterpiece was "The Circus of Dr. Lao," which he began shortly after arriving in Tucson in 1929.
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