Joan Carol Holly was a science fiction

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 author who wrote under the pseudonym

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 J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s. Holly lived and wrote in Lansing, Michigan

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 and from her various book dedications, had a strong love of cats.

The author's profile notes, in her 1961 paperback book 'Encounter', states that Joan Holly graduated from Michigan State University

Michigan State University

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 during 1954 with a B.A. in psychology. Her affiliations at the University were Phi Kappa

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, Tau Sigma & Psi Chi

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. She was the recipient of the Hinman superior student scholarship. Her first book, Encounter, was released in both hardback (1959) and paperback (1961). Other titles are:

• The Green Planet (1960, hardback) (1962, paperback)
• The Flying Eyes (1963)
• The Running Man (1963)
• The Gray Aliens (1963, hardback); paperback title 'The Grey Aliens'.
• The Time Twisters (1964)
• The Dark Enemy (1965) - (in hardback only)
• The Mind Traders (1967)
• The Dark Planet (1971)
• Keeper (1976)
• Death Dolls of Lyra (1977)
• Shepherd (1977)

Holly also contributed to the Man from UNCLE series of original novels, writing #10 - "The Assassination Affair".

Joan Holly also contributed stories for Roger Elwood

Roger Elwood

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's series of books and Sci-Fi magazines, under both her real name and her pseudonym. Some of these, 'The Chronicles of a Comer' in particular, have a religious theme.

Sources

• Author profile notes from publications in bibliography