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.
[2][3] Finney was born in Sedalia, Missouri, and served in Tientsin, China, with the U.S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment (E Company) from 1927 to 1929.
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".
Finney's work, especially The Circus of Dr. Lao, has been influential on subsequent writers of fantasy.
Arthur Calder-Marshall's The Fair to Middling (1959), Tom Reamy's Blind Voices (1978),[6] Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn (1968)[7] and Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City (2009)[8] were all influenced by Finney's work.