Charles G. Finney

• Name — Charles G. Finney • Birth Name — Charles Grandison Finney • Born — 1 December 1905 • Birthplace — Sedalia, Missouri, U.S. • Died — 16 April 1984 • Place of death — Pima, Arizona, U.S. • Occupation — Writer • Genre — Fantasy 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.

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. In his memoirs, he notes that The Circus of Dr. Lao was conceived in Tientsin during 1929. After the Army, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. He worked as an editor for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona from 1930 to 1970. 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".

• "The Iowan's Curse", Harper's Magazine, July 1958 • "The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator", Harper's Magazine, October 1958 • "The Gilashrikes", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1959 • "The Night Crawler", The New Yorker, December 5, 1959 • "An Anabasis in Minor Key", The New Yorker, March 26, 1960 • "Private Prince", The New Yorker, June 24, 1961 • "A Sermon at Casa Grande", Point West, September 1963 • "Isabelle the Inscrutable", Harper's Magazine, 228:1367 (April 1964) pp. 51–58 • "Murder with Feathers", Harper's Magazine 232:1391 (April 1966) pp. 112–13

• Project Number Six (1962)