Walter Tevis

He was an American writer of novels and short stories. Several of his short stories were published in famous magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Galaxy Science Fiction, and Playboy. Additionally, three of his novels were adapted into films: 'The Hustler' (1961), 'The Color of Money' (1984), and 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976). In 2020, Netflix produced a series inspired by his novel 'The Queen's Gambit' under the same name.