Avis de décès de Carolyn Hougan - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

Carolyn Hougan, 63     CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. -- Carolyn Hougan, whose books have sold millions of copies worldwide, died on Sunday in Charlottesville, Va., ending a long and    courageous battle with cancer. She was 63.     The author of deeply-researched novels about Shanghai in the 1930s, the Cold War and terrorism, she collaborated in recent years with her husband, Jim, on a series of thrillers written under the pseudonym, John Case. Repeatedly nominated for the Hammett Prize, which honors literary excellence in crime-writing, she is perhaps best-known as co-author of The Genesis Code, a New York Times bestseller about Vatican intrigue.     Born in New Iberia, La., on Dec. 16, 1943, she was the daughter of Samuel A. Johnson, an executive of the Chicago Bridge & Iron corporation, and the pianist, Elisabeth Case Johnson.     A Peabody scholar at Ohio's Western College for Women, Ms. Hougan matriculated at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she met her husband in a philosophy seminar entitled, Freedom, Fate & Choice.     Graduating with honors from Wisconsin, she and her husband moved abroad, living at one time or another in San Miguel de Allende, Mykonos, Ibiza, and London.     A writer of enormous talent (San Francisco Examiner) and an utterly natural storyteller (Publisher's Weekly), she was compared to Ken Follett and Helen MacInnes by the San Diego Union, while the Washington Post applauded her for Beautifully conveying the feel of that classic situation, the ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances. Of the books that she'd written, two have been rereleased by the Felony & Mayhem Press: Shooting in the Dark and The Romeo Flag.     An inveterate gardener who loved to sail, Carolyn lived in Charlottesville, Va., at the Shambles, and summered in Phippsburg.     She is survived, and grieved over, by her husband, Jim; by her children, Daisy and Matt, of Clifton, Va., and Bar Harbor; by her brother, Ron Johnson, of Houston, Texas; and by the Bath contingent: her mother, Elisabeth Johnson; her brother, Eric; and her sister, Margaret Hall. She is survived, as well, by her beloved grandchildren, Elisabeth and Magnolia.     Services will be held at 2 p.m. on March 3 at the Hill and Wood Memorial Center in Charlottesville, Va.    Carolyn Hougan