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Cady worked as a Coast Guardsman, truck driver, auctioneer, warehouseman and landscaper before he got his chance to do what he really wanted: write. He started writing using a manual typewriter in the cab of his truck. One of his first pieces won Atlantic Monthly's Atlantic First Award, and he was on his way. Cady went on to receive numerous other awards, including the Nebula, the Phillip K. Dick Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction, and other prizes. He also taught writing, mostly at the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., where he says he spent "13 happy years." He died January 14 from bladder cancer at a hospital near his home in Port Townsend, Wash. He was 71. From This is True for 11 January 2004 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Jack Cady List Price: $27.00 Amazon Price: $27.00 Editorial Review: Ghosts of Yesterday is a stunning collection by multiple-award-winning author Jack Cady The Off Season, The Haunting of Hood Canal. Cady captures the sights and emotions of America, from the Pacific Northwest ("Jeremiah"), to the streets of San Francisco ("The Lady With the Blind Dog"), to the Midwest-heartland ("Halloween 1942"), along the roads and highways in between ("The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill"), and back into the history of the American Southeast ("The Time That Time Forgot"). The stories that make up Ghosts of Yesterday are detailed and realistic portraits of the world that, despite (and perhaps because) of their authenticity, manage to convey a sense of wonder and fantastic, where anything is possible. The characters and places that Cady brings to life demonstrate clearly why he is one of the most versatile and respected writers today... His stories will move you, and change the way you look at the world. Contents: * The Lady With the Blind Dog * Jeremiah * Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Spirit * Halloween 1942 * On Writing the Ghost Story * The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill * Weird Row * Daddy Dearest * Jacket Copy * Griffin * Isreal * The Time that Time Forgot "Cady's eerie vision of life will haunt readers for a long time." - Booklist "Cady uncovers the scars on our collective psyche... These are powerfully told stories by a writer whose words reverberate with human insight." - Publishers Weekly "Cady's stories have the humor and comfortable mastery of Faulkner or Steinbeck." - The National Review "Jack Cady is above all, a writer of great, unmistakable integrity and profound feeling... Jack Cady's is a voice we need to hear." - Peter Straub "His structural control and the laconic richness of his style establish Cady in the front rank... " - Library Journal "[Jack Cady is] an exceptional writer." - Joyce Carol Oates "[Jack Cady is] a lasting voice in modern American literature" - Atlanta Constitution The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, May-June 2003 (Unabridged) By: Kessel, Cady, Sheckley, Bacigalupi, Barry M, John, Jack, Robert, Paolo Malzberg List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $13.10  By: Jack Cady List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $21.24 Editorial Review: Having considered the subject for more than sixty years, Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The American Writer is both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested in reading. Cady traces with insight and passion the threads of sin and original good in American literature, examines the thorny question of race, and explores the fantastic in modern fiction. He looks anew at familiar writers like Hemingway and Steinbeck, and repeatedly focuses on storytellers who have fallen out of favor today. Decidedly non-canonical and definitely not Politically Correct, The American Writer celebrates the nation's whole literary history from its roots to its crowning achievements. It sees the New World through experienced eyes. It is passionate, honest, and powerfully inspiring. It will be read and treasured for years to come. The Hauntings of Hood Canal By: Jack Cady List Price: $23.95 Amazon Price: $9.99 Editorial Review: Cady's horror is that of the working man who has put his soul and sweat and hands to build a civilization, only to see the edifice of his creation taken apart by time, by selfishness, and by the warped, dark corners of the men who would bend the work of others to their own ends. The Hauntings of Hood Canal presents a small town in Washington state, a town that has settled into its own equilibrium, only to have that equilibrium upset by the arrival of a man who's a little too fond of small children. A responsible blacksmith rids the town of this infection, but the doing of it creates a moral imbalance, and restoring the balance means facing an evil that has cracked the foundation of civilization itself. A dark and moody novel of small-town life in Washington disturbed by a mysterious entity that drags cars into Hood canal. A cast of drifters, hustlers, and others on the fringe find their lives drawn into a vortex of anxiety by an investigation into the deaths caused by an ancient creature that takes up residence in the canal they live by. The Rules Of '48 By: Jack Cady List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $10.17 Editorial Review: Master storyteller Jack Cady's final novel, Rules of '48, is a stirring semi-autobiographical examination of changing social conventions, and the development of the American conscience in the aftermath of the greatest war in history. In a city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men endure seven deadly weeks that forever alter their perceptions of the world. |
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