alcoholic, and his works often included these vices as central themes. Tevis took some of the money he earned from the movie rights to The Hustler and moved his family to Mexico, where he later claimed that he "stayed drunk for eight months." When Tevis was drinking, he couldn't write. According to his son Will, "[Walter Tevis] is the [anti-]hero of all his own books." Having a heart condition, Tevis was given phenobarbital at a young age. This is considered part of the inspiration for the character Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, and according to Tevis, part of the reason for his later alcoholism. Tevis was able to overcome his alcohol habit in the 1970s with help from Alcoholics Anonymous. Tevis spent his last years in New York City as a full-time writer, where he died of lung cancer in 1984. He was buried in Richmond, Kentucky. In 2003, Jamie Griggs Tevis published her autobiography, My Life with the Hustler. She died August 4, 2006. In 1983, Tevis married Eleanora Walker, later the trustee of the Walter Tevis Copyright Trust. She died December 9, 2016, at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, in an apparent suicide. Walter Tevis's literary output is represented by the Susan Schulman Literary Agency. Bibliography Novels Reprint: Del Rey Impact, 1999. Reprint: Del Rey Impact, 1999. Short fiction Collections Far from Home, Doubleday, 1981 List of stories "The Best in the Country", Esquire, November 1954. "The Big Hustle", Collier's, August 5, 1955. "Misleading Lady", The American Magazine, October 1955. "Mother of the Artist", Everywoman's, 1955. "The Man from Chicago", Bluebook, January 1956. "The Stubbornest Man", Saturday Evening Post, January 19, 1957. "The Hustler", (original title: "The Actors") Playboy "Operation Gold Brick" (original title: "The Goldbrick"), If, June, 1957. "The Ifth of Oofth", Galaxy, April 1957 "The Big Bounce", Galaxy, February 1958. "Sucker's Game", Redbook, August 1958. "First Love", Redbook, August 1958. "Far From Home", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1958. "Alien Love" (original title: "The Man from Budapest") Cosmopolitan, April 1959. Adapted as a teleplay for NBC's The Loretta Young Show, season 7, episode 12, aired December 13, 1959. "A Short Ride in the Dark", Toronto Star Weekly Magazine, April 4, 1959. "Gentle Is the Gunman" Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1960. "The Other End of the Line", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1961. "The Machine That Hustled Pool",