Doogan, Mike

Mike Doogan has been called "the columnist Alaskans love to hate." A third-generation native of the state, he lives in Anchorage and spends part of the year in Juneau as a Representative in the State House.

He was a journalist for thirty years, the last fourteen as a columnist for th Anchorage Daily News, where he shared the 1989 Pulitzer Prize. His first mystery story, "War Can Be Murder," won the 2003 Robert L. Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America.