Jack Cady, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jack Cady

American writer

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1932

Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 14-Jan-2004

Profession: writer, novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jack Cady

  • Jack Cady (March 20, 1932 – January 14, 2004) was an American author.
  • He is most known as an award winning fantasist and horror writer.
  • In his career, he won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award.Cady was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but served in the U.S.
  • Coast Guard in Maine.
  • Later in life, he held 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 short teaching stints at colleges in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Alaska from 1973 to 1978.
  • In 1985 he began teaching writing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and he retired from that post in 1998.
  • Cady married fellow writer Carol Orlock in 1977, and they remained together until his death.
  • Cady's collected literary papers were donated to the Mortvedt Library at Pacific Lutheran in the spring of 2006. A master of the short story, Cady is perhaps best known for the Nebula-winning tale "The Night We Buried Road Dog" (1993).
  • His work at shorter lengths also won him a place in the Best American Short Stories anthologies of 1971 and 1972. Cady also wrote science fiction.
  • The 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.
  • Cady was born in Kentucky and McDowell's Ghost was his attempt to explain the Southern code of conduct with a reverence matched only by William Faulkner. Cady was also a major believer in the value of history, not only towards understanding politics, but also writing itself.
  • One of his books was The American Writer: Shaping a Nation's Mind, a survey of American literature.

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