Hougan, Carolyn 1943-2007 (John Case, a joint pseudonym)
Hougan, Carolyn 1943-2007 (John Case, a joint pseudonym)
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born December 16, 1943, in New Iberia, CA; died of cancer, February 25, 2007, in Charlottesville, VA. Hougan was a novelist who wrote under her own name and also partnered with her husband, Jim, to write thrillers as John Case. She was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she completed a B.A. in 1966. She married that year, and worked a variety of jobs, including as a waitress, bus driver, legal secretary, and staff member of the Wisconsin governor's office. Hougan published several fiction titles on her own, including Shooting in the Dark (1984) and Blood Relative (1992), before partnering with her husband. Together, they penned The Genesis Code (1997), The First Horseman (1998), The Syndrome (2001), The Eighth Day (2002), The Murder Artist (2004), and Ghost Dancer (2007). Ghost Dancer was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Award.
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Washington Post, March 2, 2007, p. B8.