A trip to Lexington with Beth Harmon and Walter Tevis

The lives of Walter Tevis and his literary character Beth Harmon have a number of similarities. Both of them experienced a childhood marked by drug addiction, and later, alcoholism, both "lived" in Lexington, Kentucky. And both of them found their salvation in chess. A hunt for clues in Lexington.

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The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit Guide to Lexington, Kentucky

Walter Tevis Was a Novelist. You Might Know His Books (Much) Better as Movies. - The New York Times

BIOGRAPHIES II: Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

BIOGRAPHIES II: Walter Tevis

A trip to Lexington with Beth Harmon and Walter Tevis

A trip to Lexington with Beth Harmon and Walter Tevis

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