Jack Cady (March 20, 1932 – January 14, 2004) was an American author, born in Kentucky. He is known mostly as an award winning writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He won the

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, the

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, and the

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. Cady was a conscientious objector during the

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, 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

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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

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, 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 short story "The Night We Buried Road Dog" (1993). Stories of his were included in the

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anthologies of 1971 and 1972. His

dystopian novel Utopian and dystopian fiction are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to ...

''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

Novels

* ''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) * Under the pseudonym Pat Franklin: * "Dark Dreaming" (1991) * "Embrace of the Wolf" (1993)

Short fiction

;Collections * ''The Burning and Other Stories'' (1972) * ''Tattoo'' (1978) * ''The Sons of Noah'' (1992) (World Fantasy Award winner) * ''The Night We Buried Road Dog'' (1998) * ''Ghostland'' (2001; e-publication) * ''Ghosts of Yesterday'' (2003) ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

Non-fiction

* ''The American Writer'' (1999)

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