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’ s Gambit? Even though the 1983 novel – the basis for the hit Netflix miniseries – has recently become a paperback bestseller, the name of its author isn't half as well known as it should be. Yet Walter Tevis was more than a one-hit wonder. Tevis’s first book, The Hustler (1959), is the classic novel about professional pool players, and was made into an equally classic film with Paul Newman as “Fast” Eddie Felson and Jackie Gleason as the dapper Minnesota Fats. Published a quarter of a century later, Tevis’s final novel, The Color of Money, revisits the now middle-aged Felson...

Book World: You loved 'Queen's Gambit'? Its author has some brilliant next moves for you. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Feb. 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 Quick, who wrote "The Queen's Gambit"? Even though the 1983 novel - the basis for the hit Netflix miniseries - has recently become a paperback bestseller, the name of its author isn't half as well known as it should be. Yet Walter Tevis is more than a one-hit wonder. Tevis' first book, "The Hustler" (1959) is the classic novel about professional pool players, made into an equally classic film with Paul Newman as "Fast" Eddie Felso...