J. Hunter Holly

Joan Carol Holly (1932–1982) was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s. Holly lived and wrote in Lansing, Michigan and from her various book dedications, had a strong love of cats.

Holly graduated from Michigan State University during 1954 with a B.A. in psychology. Her affiliations at the University were Phi Kappa, Tau Sigma & Psi Chi. She was the recipient of the Hinman superior student scholarship.^[1]

• Encounter (1959)
• The Green Planet (1961)^[2]
• The Dark Planet (1962)
• The Flying Eyes (1962)^[3]
• The Running Man (1963)
• The Gray Aliens (1963, published in the UK as The Grey Aliens)
• The Time Twisters (1964)
• The Dark Enemy (1965)
• The Mind Traders (1967)
• Keeper (1976)
• Death Dolls of Lyra (1977)
• Shepherd (1977)

Holly also contributed to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series of original novels, writing #10 The Assassination Affair.^[4]

Joan Holly also contributed stories for Roger Elwood'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.

• Joan Hunter Holly Papers (MS 252) at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas
• J. Hunter Holly at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database