Jack Cady
Jack Cady (1932-2004) worked in many places: with the Coast Guard in Maine, as a tree climber in Massachusetts, as a truck driver through the southwest, and a teacher in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Washington (he called himself a missionary in English). Out of this rich life emerged what one reviewer described as "a working-class fantasy/horror writer who populated odd universes with flesh-and-blood characters....fantasy filtered through daily life into believable but extraordinary narratives." Cady's work has appeared throughout most of Europe, as well as Japan and Hong Kong. His work has won the Nebula, the Bram Stoker, the Phillip K. Dick, and the World Fantasy awards, plus a number of others.