Jack Cady

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Jack Cady
Jack Cady, date unknown
Jack Cady, date unknown
Born(1932-03-20)20 March 1932
Kentucky
Died14 January 2004(2004-01-14) (aged 71)
Pen namePat Franklin
OccupationAuthor
GenresFantasy, horror, science fiction
Notable awardsNebula Award
World Fantasy Award
Bram Stoker Award
SpouseCarol Orlock

Jack Cady (March 20, 1932[1] – January 14, 2004[1]) was an American author, born in Kentucky. He is known mostly as a writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award.[2]

Cady was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but served in the U.S. Coast Guard in Maine. He later had several jobs, including truck driver, auctioneer, landscaper and finally university instructor. He first taught creative writing at the University of Washington from 1968 until 1973, and he then had a number of brief teaching stints at colleges in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Alaska from 1973 to 1978. During 1985 he began teaching writing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and he retired from that job in 1998. Cady married fellow writer Carol Orlock in 1977, and they remained married until his death. Cady's collected literary papers were donated to the Mortvedt Library at Pacific Lutheran University during the spring of 2006.

Cady is perhaps known best for the Nebula-winning novella "The Night We Buried Road Dog" (1993). Stories of his were included in the Best American Short Stories anthologies of 1971 and 1972.

His dystopian novel McDowell's Ghost concerns a modern-day Southerner who keeps seeing the ghost of an ancestor killed during the Civil War; the spirit helps McDowell obtain justice for a female friend who was raped.

Another of Cady's books was The American Writer: Shaping a Nation's Mind, a survey of American literature.

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • The Well (1981)
  • Singleton (1981)
  • The Jonah Watch (1982)
  • Mc Dowell's Ghost (1982)
  • The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish (1983)
  • Inagehi (1993)
  • Street (1994)
  • The Off Season (1995)
  • The Hauntings of Hood Canal (2001)
  • Rules of '48 (2009)
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Under the pseudonym Pat Franklin:

  • "Dark Dreaming" (1991)
  • "Embrace of the Wolf" (1993)

Short fiction

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Collections
  • The Burning and Other Stories (1972)
  • Tattoo (1978)
  • The Sons of Noah (1992) (World Fantasy Award winner)[3]
  • The Night We Buried Road Dog (1998)
  • Ghostland (2001; e-publication)
  • Ghosts of Yesterday (2003)
Stories[4]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
"Jeremiah" 2000 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Novelette
The Night We Buried Road Dog 1993 F&SF (Jan. 1993) Reprinted in the February 2009 issue, along with an introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Novella

Non-fiction

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  • The American Writer (1999)

See also

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References

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  2. ^ Obituaries in the News; From: AP Online Date: January 17, 2004.
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  4. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
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