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Mike Doogan
Mike Doogan is a third generation Alaskan.
He is 59. He was born in Fairbanks and has lived in
Anchorage since 1964. He is a graduate of West Anchorage
High School and the University of San Francisco, and holds
an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Mike has been a Teamster, a janitor, a baggage handler, a
mailroom flunky, a writing teacher and a legislative aide,
but worked for most of his adult life as a journalist and
writer. For 14 years, he was a columnist for the
Anchorage Daily News. He is the author of three books
of nonsense about Alaska, and editor of a collection of
essays on life there. He is currently writing mystery
novels and serving in the Alaska House of Representatives.
His mystery writing has won Mike the Robert L. Fish Award
from the Mystery Writers of America and the Spotted Owl
Award from the Friends of Mystery. His first novel, Lost
Angel, has been nominated for a Shamus Award by the
Private Eye Writers of America.
Mike and his wife, Kathy, will celebrate their 38th wedding
anniversary in November. They have two grown children. As
you might expect, Kathy is Mike’s reader and editor of
first, and last, resort.
Two other people who deserve much of the praise — or
the blame — for Mike’s mystery novels are his agent,
Marcy Posner of Sterling Lord Literistic, and his editor at
Penguin, Tom Colgan.
Books:
Skeleton Lake, August 2008
Capitol Offense, August 2008
Capitol Offense, August 2007
Lost Angel, August 2007
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