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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
. They honor the best in mystery fiction
Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective solves a crime....
, non-fiction
Non-fiction

Non-fiction is an document or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question....
, television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
 published or produced in the past year.

Best Novel award winners Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:




- Ken Follett
Ken Follett

'Ken Follett' is a United Kingdom author of Thriller s and historical novels. He has sold a total of List of best-selling fiction authors and has authored numerous bestselling works, such as The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, A Dangerous Fortune, The Man from St....
, The Eye of the Needle

1978 - William Hallahan, Catch Me: Kill Me

1977 - Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker is an acclaimed United States crime writer. His most famous works are the Spenser series, which achieved a far wider audience due to being dramatized as a television series, Spenser: For Hire, on the American Broadcasting Company network during the late 1980s....
, Promised Land
Promised Land (novel)

Promised Land is the fourth Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker, first published in 1976. It won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1977....

1976 - Brian Garfield
Brian Garfield

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield is an United States novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteenand wrote several novels under such pen names as Frank Wynne and Brian Wynne before gaining prominence when his book Hopscotch won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel....
, Hopscotch

1975 - Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary

Jon Stephen Cleary is an Australian author.Born in Erskineville Sydney, Australia, Cleary has written many books, among them Sundowners and The High Commissioner , the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone....
, Peter's Pence

1974 - Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman was an award-winning United States author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels....
, Dance Hall of the Dead
Dance Hall of the Dead

Dance Hall Of The Dead, released in 1973, is the second novel by Tony Hillerman featuring the character Joe Leaphorn. Like many of Hillerman's books, Dance Hall Of The Dead is set in the American Southwest....

1973 - Warren Kiefer, The Lingala Code

1972 - Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth, Order of the British Empire is an England author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War , The Fist of God, Icon , The Veteran , Avenger and recently The Afghan....
, The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal is a Thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the Organisation arm?e secr?te France terrorism group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France....

1971 - Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall

Maj Sj?wall is a Sweden author and translator. She is best known for the collaborative work with her husband Per Wahl?? on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm....
 & Per Wahlöö
Per Wahlöö

Per Fredrik Wahl?? was a Sweden author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his wife Maj Sj?wall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975....
, The Laughing Policeman
The Laughing Policeman (novel)

The Laughing Policeman , by Sj?wall and Wahl??, is the fourth police detective novel, in the ten-part 'Martin Beck' series. Originally published in Sweden in 1968 as Den skrattande polisen, it is the first novel in the series to criticize the shortcomings of the Swedish welfare state....

1970 - Dick Francis
Dick Francis

Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
, Forfeit

- Jeffery Hudson
Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton, Doctor of Medicine , was an United States author, film producer, film director, and physician, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and techno-thriller genres....
, A Case of Need
A Case of Need

A Case of Need is a mystery novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company and won an Edgar Award in 1969....

1968 - Donald E. Westlake
Donald E. Westlake

Donald Edwin Westlake was an United States writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially Caper story with an occasional foray into science fiction....
, God Save the Mark

1967 - Nicolas Freeling
Nicolas Freeling

Nicolas Freeling born Nicolas Davidson, was a British crime novel, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels which were adapted for transmission on the United Kingdom ITV network by Thames Television during the 1970s....
, King of the Rainy Country

1966 - Adam Hall
Elleston Trevor

Elleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the United Kingdom novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith , who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone....
, The Quiller Memorandum
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum is a film adaptation of the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Elleston Trevor, screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson , featuring George Segal, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger and Alec Guinness....

1965 - John le Carré
John le Carré

John le Carr? is an English author of spy fiction, several of which have been adapted for film and television. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, before leaving the secret service to devote himself to writing after the success of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold....
, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , by John le Carr? is a Cold War spy novel famous for its intricate plot and its portrait of the West's espionage methods as inconsistent with Western values....

1964 - Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler

Eric Clifford Ambler Order of the British Empire was an influential England author of spy novels ,who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda....
, The Light of Day

1963 - Ellis Peters
Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, British Empire Medal was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech literature classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern....
, Death and the Joyful Woman

1962 - J. J. Marric
John Creasey

John Creasey was a prolific England crime writer, who published in excess of 600 novels under 28 different pseudonyms, creating along the way many characters who are now internationally famous....
, Gideon's Fire

1961 - Julian Symons
Julian Symons

Julian Gustave Symons was a United Kingdom crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature....
, Progress of a Crime

1960 - Celia Fremlin
Celia Fremlin

Celia Margaret Fremlin was born in Kingsbury, now part of London, England, the sister of nuclear physicist, John H. Fremlin. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford University....
, The Hours Before Dawn

- Stanley Ellin
Stanley Ellin

Stanley Bernard Ellin was an United States mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He garnered a love for reading at a young age with an interest in works by the likes of Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and Edgar Allan Poe....
, The Eighth Circle 1958 - Ed Lacy
Ed Lacy

Ed Lacy , born Leonard "Len" S. Zinberg, was an United States writer....
, Room to Swing 1957 - Charlotte Armstrong
Charlotte Armstrong

Charlotte Armstrong Lewi was an United States author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote over 28 novels, as well as working for the New York Times advertising department, as a fashion reporter for Breath of the Avenue , and in an accounting firm....
, A Dram of Poison 1956 - Margaret Millar
Margaret Millar

Margaret Ellis Millar was an American-Canadian mystery fiction and thriller fiction writer.Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Ontario, she was educated there and in Toronto....
, Beast in View 1955 - Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an United States crime fiction, who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private eye story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre....
, The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye (novel)

The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some consider it not on the level of The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work....
 1954 - Charlotte Jay
Charlotte Jay

Charlotte Jay was the pseudonym adopted by Australian mystery writer and novelist, Geraldine Halls . One of the best and most singular authors of the suspense era , she wrote only nine crime books, but their unorthodoxy secured her a high place in Mystery fiction Hall of Fame....
, Beat Not the Bones

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2008, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2007, are Down River by John Hart for Best Novel, In the Woods
In the Woods

In the Woods is a mystery novel by Tana French. The central theme is the summer evening, , when twelve year-old Adam and his two best friends failed to come home from a trip into the familiar woods bordering their Ireland estate ....
 by Tana French for Best First Novel By An American Author, Queenpin by Megan Abbott for Best Paperback Original, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F.






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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
. They honor the best in mystery fiction
Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective solves a crime....
, non-fiction
Non-fiction

Non-fiction is an document or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question....
, television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
 published or produced in the past year.

Categories


  • Best novel (since 1954)
  • Best first novel by an American author
    List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel winners

    Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by An American Author:...
     (since 1946)
  • Best paperback original
    List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original winners

    Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original:...
     (since 1970)
  • Best short story
    List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story winners

    Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story:...
     (since 1951)
  • Best fact crime (since 1948)
  • Best critical/biographical work (since 1977)
  • Best young adult
    List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel winners

    Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel:...
     (since 1989)
  • Best juvenile (since 1961)
  • Best episode in a TV series
    List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series winners

    Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series:...
     (since 1952)
  • Best TV feature or miniseries (since 1972)
  • Best motion picture screenplay (since 1946)
  • Best play
    List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play winners

    Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play:...
     (since 1950, irregular)
  • Special Edgars (since 1949, irregular)


  • Robert L Fish Memorial Award (since 1984)
  • Raven Award (since 1953)
  • Grand Master Award (since 1955)
  • Ellery Queen Award (since 1983)
  • Mary Higgins Clark Award (since 2001)


  • Best radio drama (1946–1960)
  • Outstanding Mystery Criticism (1946–1967)
  • Best foreign film (1949–1966)
  • Best book jacket (1955–1975)


Best Novel award winners

Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:

2000s

  • 2008 John Hart, Down River
  • 2007 Jason Goodwin
    Jason Goodwin

    Jason Goodwin is a United Kingdom writer and historian. He studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University. Following the success of A Time For Tea: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea, he walked from Poland to Istanbul, Turkey....
    , The Janissary Tree
    The Janissary Tree

    The Janissary Tree is a crime fiction, written by Jason Goodwin. It set in Istanbul in 1836.The first in a series featuring the eunuch detective Yashim, it deals with the fictional aftermath of a real event in Ottoman history - the so-called The Auspicious Incident, which took place in June, 1826....
  • 2006 Jess Walter
    Jess Walter

    Jess Walter is an United States author of four novels. His work been published in fifteen countries and translated into thirteen languages.Walter is also a career journalist, whose work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe....
    , Citizen Vince
  • 2005 T. Jefferson Parker
    T. Jefferson Parker

    T. Jefferson Parker is an United States novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California....
    , California Girl
  • 2004 Ian Rankin
    Ian Rankin

    Ian Rankin Order of the British Empire, Deputy Lieutenant, is a Scotland crime writer. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels....
    , Resurrection Men
    Resurrection Men

    Resurrection Men is a 2002 novel by Ian Rankin. It is the thirteenth of the Inspector Rebus novels....
  • 2003 S. J. Rozan, Winter and Night
  • 2002 T. Jefferson Parker
    T. Jefferson Parker

    T. Jefferson Parker is an United States novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California....
    , Silent Joe
  • 2001 Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale

    Joe R. Lansdale is an United States author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western fiction, horror fiction, science fiction, Mystery fiction, and suspense....
    , The Bottoms
  • 2000 Jan Burke
    Jan Burke

    Jan Burke is an award winning author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel....
    , Bones


1990s

  • 1999 Robert Clark
    Robert Clark (author)

    Robert Clark is a novelist and writer of nonfiction. He received the Edgar Award for his novel Mr. White's Confession in 1999. A native of St....
    , Mr. White's Confession
  • 1998 James Lee Burke
    James Lee Burke

    'James Lee Burke' is an United States author of mystery fiction, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose , while the Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen; by Alec Baldwin in the film Heaven's Prisoners , and by Tommy Lee Jones in the film, ...
    , Cimarron Rose
  • 1997 Thomas H. Cook
    Thomas H. Cook

    Thomas H. Cook is an American author, whose 1996 novel The Chatham School Affair received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America....
    , The Chatham School Affair
  • 1996 Dick Francis
    Dick Francis

    Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
    , Come to Grief
  • 1995 Mary Willis Walker
    Mary Willis Walker

    Mary Willis Walker is American crime fiction author. She studied at Duke University....
    , The Red Scream
  • 1994 Minette Walters
    Minette Walters

    Minette Walters is a best-selling England crime writer, who has received many awards for her writing and is published in 35 countries. Often described as the 'queen of the psychological thriller', she was one of the first writers within the genre to achieve international success without a series character....
    , The Sculptress
    The Sculptress

    The Sculptress is a mystery novel by Minette Walters. It follows the life of Rosalind Leigh, a journalist, who is writing a book about Olive Martin, a convicted murderess who butchered her mother and sister....
  • 1993 Margaret Maron
    Margaret Maron

    Margaret Maron is an United States writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels....
    , Bootlegger's Daughter
  • 1992 Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block

    Lawrence Block is an acclaimed contemporary American crime fiction writer best known for two long-running New York city-set series, about the recovering alcoholic Private Investigator Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively....
    , A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
  • 1991 Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning
  • 1990 James Lee Burke
    James Lee Burke

    'James Lee Burke' is an United States author of mystery fiction, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose , while the Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen; by Alec Baldwin in the film Heaven's Prisoners , and by Tommy Lee Jones in the film, ...
    , Black Cherry Blues


1980s

  • 1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky
    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Stuart M. Kaminsky is an award-winning United States mystery writer. He is best known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private investigator in 1940s Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago, Illinois polic...
    , A Cold Red Sunrise
  • 1988 Aaron Elkins
    Aaron Elkins

    Aaron Elkins is an United States mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring Forensic anthropology Gideon Oliver—the 'bone detective'....
    , Old Bones
  • 1987 Barbara Vine
    Ruth Rendell

    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, Order of the British Empire, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an acclaimed England crime writer, known for her many psychological thrillers and murder mystery....
    , A Dark-Adapted Eye
    A Dark-Adapted Eye

    A Dark-Adapted Eye is a psychological thriller novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the nom-de-plume Barbara Vine. The novel won the American Edgar Award....
  • 1986 L. R. Wright
    L. R. Wright

    Laurali Rose Wright was a Canada writer of Mystery fiction novels.Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Wright worked as an actor and journalism before publishing her first novel, Neighbours, in 1979....
    , The Suspect
  • 1985 Ross Thomas, Briarpatch
  • 1984 Elmore Leonard
    Elmore Leonard

    Elmore John Leonard, Jr. is a popular and acclaimed United States novelist and screenwriter.His earliest published novels in the 1950s were western fictions, and Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, several of which have been adapted into successful motion pictures or TV movies....
    , LaBrava
  • 1983 Rick Boyer
    Rick Boyer

    Richard Lewis Boyer is an American writer, best known for series of crime novels featuring Charlie "Doc" Adams, a dental surgeon in New England....
    , Billinsgate Shoal
  • 1982 William Bayer, Peregrine
  • 1981 Dick Francis
    Dick Francis

    Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
     Whip Hand
  • 1980 Arthur Maling
    Arthur Maling

    Arthur Gordon Maling is an American writer of crime novel and Thriller novels.. He graduated from Francis W. Parker School, Chicago in 1940; in 1944 he received a B.A....
    , The Rheingold Route


1970s

1979 - Ken Follett
Ken Follett

'Ken Follett' is a United Kingdom author of Thriller s and historical novels. He has sold a total of List of best-selling fiction authors and has authored numerous bestselling works, such as The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, A Dangerous Fortune, The Man from St....
, The Eye of the Needle
  • Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Rendell

    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, Order of the British Empire, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an acclaimed England crime writer, known for her many psychological thrillers and murder mystery....
    , A Sleeping Life
    A Sleeping Life

    A Sleeping Life is a crime-novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1978. It features her popular investigator Detective Inspector Wexford, and is the tenth novel in the series....
  • Tony Hillerman
    Tony Hillerman

    Tony Hillerman was an award-winning United States author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels....
    , Listening Woman
    Listening Woman

    Listening Woman is Tony Hillerman's third novel about the character Joe Leaphorn....
  • Jack S. Scott, The Shallow Grave
  • John Godey
    Morton Freedgood

    Morton Freedgood was a best-selling author who wrote The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and many other detective and mystery novels under the pen name John Godey....
    , The Snake


1978 - William Hallahan, Catch Me: Kill Me
  • William McIlvanney
    William McIlvanney

    William McIlvanney is a writer of crime stories, novels, and poetry. McIlvanney is a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s....
    , Laidlaw
    Laidlaw (novel)

    Laidlaw is the first novel of a series of crime books by William McIlvanney. It features DI Laidlaw and DC Harkness, his assigned assistant, in their attempts to find the brutal sex related murderer of a Glasgow teenager....
  • Martin Cruz Smith
    Martin Cruz Smith

    Martin Cruz Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1942. He originally wrote under the name Martin Smith only to discover there were other writers with the same name....
    , Nightwing
    Nightwing (novel)

    Nightwing is a Thriller , a novel by Martin Cruz Smith. It was made into a movie....


1977 - Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker is an acclaimed United States crime writer. His most famous works are the Spenser series, which achieved a far wider audience due to being dramatized as a television series, Spenser: For Hire, on the American Broadcasting Company network during the late 1980s....
, Promised Land
Promised Land (novel)

Promised Land is the fourth Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker, first published in 1976. It won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1977....
  • Richard Neely, A Madness of the Heart
  • Thomas Gifford
    Thomas Gifford

    Thomas Eugene Gifford was a best-selling United States author of thriller novels. He was a graduate of Harvard University.He gained international fame with the crime novel The Glendower Legacy and later with the Vatican thriller The Assassini....
    , The Cavanaugh Quest
  • Gerald Seymour
    Gerald Seymour

    Gerald Seymour is a British writer....
    , The Glory Boys
  • Trevanian
    Trevanian

    "Trevanian" was the pen name of United States author Dr. Rodney William Whitaker . He wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved best-seller status, and published under several names, of which the best known was Trevanian....
    , The Main


1976 - Brian Garfield
Brian Garfield

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield is an United States novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteenand wrote several novels under such pen names as Frank Wynne and Brian Wynne before gaining prominence when his book Hopscotch won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel....
, Hopscotch
  • Gerald Seymour
    Gerald Seymour

    Gerald Seymour is a British writer....
    , Harry's Game
  • Maggie Rennert, Operation Alcestic
  • Martin Albert, The Gargoyle Conspiracy
  • Ross Thomas, The Money Harvest


1975 - Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary

Jon Stephen Cleary is an Australian author.Born in Erskineville Sydney, Australia, Cleary has written many books, among them Sundowners and The High Commissioner , the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone....
, Peter's Pence
  • Francis Clifford
    Francis Clifford (author)

    Francis Clifford is a pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a British writer of crime novel and Thriller novels. He was born in Bristol, served with great distinction in the Second World War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order....
    , Goodbye and Amen
  • Andrew Garve, The Lester Affair
  • Malcolm Bosse
    Malcolm Bosse

    Malcolm Joseph Bosse , a total of 76 years, was an United States author of both young adult and adult novels. His novels are often set in Asia, and have been praised for their cultural and historical information relating to the character's adventures....
    , The Man Who Loved Zoos
  • Paul Erdman
    Paul Erdman

    Paul Emil Erdman was one of the leading business and Finance writers in the United States.His specialty was writing novels based on monetary trends and historical facts concerning complex matters of international finance....
    , The Silver Bears


1974 - Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman was an award-winning United States author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels....
, Dance Hall of the Dead
Dance Hall of the Dead

Dance Hall Of The Dead, released in 1973, is the second novel by Tony Hillerman featuring the character Joe Leaphorn. Like many of Hillerman's books, Dance Hall Of The Dead is set in the American Southwest....
  • Francis Clifford
    Francis Clifford (author)

    Francis Clifford is a pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a British writer of crime novel and Thriller novels. He was born in Bristol, served with great distinction in the Second World War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order....
    , Amigo, Amigo
  • P. D. James
    P. D. James

    Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature , commonly known as P....
    , An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

    An Unsuitable Job For A Woman is the title of a 1972 detective novel by P. D. James.It features Detective Cordelia Gray, the protagonist of both this title and The Skull Beneath the Skin....
  • Jean Stubbs, Dear Laura
  • Victor Canning
    Victor Canning

    Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and Thriller s who flourished in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986....
    , The Rainbird Pattern
    The Rainbird Pattern

    The Rainbird Pattern is a 1972 in literature novel by Victor Canning.It was adapted for the Film by Ernest Lehman in 1976 and was directed by Alfred Hitchcock under the title Family Plot....
     


1973 - Warren Kiefer, The Lingala Code
  • Martin Cruz Smith
    Martin Cruz Smith

    Martin Cruz Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1942. He originally wrote under the name Martin Smith only to discover there were other writers with the same name....
    , Canto for a Gypsy
  • John Ball
    John Ball (American author)

    John Dudley Ball , writing as John Ball, was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs....
    , Five Pieces of Jade
  • Hugh C. Rae, The Shooting Gallery
  • Ngaio Marsh
    Ngaio Marsh

    Dame Ngaio Marsh British honours system , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a crime writer and theatre director from New Zealand. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900....
    , Tied Up in Tinsel


1972 - Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth, Order of the British Empire is an England author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War , The Fist of God, Icon , The Veteran , Avenger and recently The Afghan....
, The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal is a Thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the Organisation arm?e secr?te France terrorism group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France....
  • P. D. James
    P. D. James

    Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature , commonly known as P....
    , Shroud for a Nightingale
    Shroud for a Nightingale

    Shroud for a Nightingale is a 1971 detective fiction written by PD James in her Adam Dalgliesh series. Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate the death of two student nurses at the hospital nursing school of Nightingale House....
  • G. F. Newman
    G. F. Newman

    Gordon Frank Newman is an England television producer and writer. He is known for his two series Law and Order and The Nation's Health, each based on his books....
    , Sir, You Bastard
  • Tony Hillerman
    Tony Hillerman

    Tony Hillerman was an award-winning United States author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels....
    , The Fly on the Wall
  • Arthur Wise, Who Killed Enoch Powell?


1971 - Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall

Maj Sj?wall is a Sweden author and translator. She is best known for the collaborative work with her husband Per Wahl?? on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm....
 & Per Wahlöö
Per Wahlöö

Per Fredrik Wahl?? was a Sweden author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his wife Maj Sj?wall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975....
, The Laughing Policeman
The Laughing Policeman (novel)

The Laughing Policeman , by Sj?wall and Wahl??, is the fourth police detective novel, in the ten-part 'Martin Beck' series. Originally published in Sweden in 1968 as Den skrattande polisen, it is the first novel in the series to criticize the shortcomings of the Swedish welfare state....
  • Pat Stadley, Autumn of a Hunter
  • Margaret Millar
    Margaret Millar

    Margaret Ellis Millar was an American-Canadian mystery fiction and thriller fiction writer.Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Ontario, she was educated there and in Toronto....
    , Beyond this Point Are Monsters
  • Patricia Moyes
    Patricia Moyes

    Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, a.k.a. Patricia Moyes was an Irish-born British mystery writer....
    , Many Deadly Returns
  • Donald E. Westlake
    Donald E. Westlake

    Donald Edwin Westlake was an United States writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially Caper story with an occasional foray into science fiction....
    , The Hot Rock
  • Shaun Herron, The Hound and the Fox and the Harper


1970 - Dick Francis
Dick Francis

Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
, Forfeit
  • Chester Himes
    Chester Himes

    Chester Bomar Himes was a famous African American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels....
    , Blind Man with a Pistol
  • Shaun Herron, Miro
  • Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson

    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson is an England author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career....
    , The Old English Peep Show
  • Emma Lathen
    Emma Lathen

    Emma Lathen is the pen name of two American businesswomen: an attorney Mary Jane Latsis and an economic analyst Martha Henissart ,who received her B.A....
    , When in Greece
  • Dorothy Salisbury Davis
    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis is an United States crime fiction writer....
    , Where the Dark Streets Go


1960s

1969 - Jeffery Hudson
Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton, Doctor of Medicine , was an United States author, film producer, film director, and physician, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and techno-thriller genres....
, A Case of Need
A Case of Need

A Case of Need is a mystery novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company and won an Edgar Award in 1969....
  • Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson

    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson is an England author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career....
    , A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
  • Dick Francis
    Dick Francis

    Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
    , Blood Sport
  • Dorothy Salisbury Davis
    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis is an United States crime fiction writer....
     and Jerome Ross, God Speed the Night
  • Heron Carvic
    Heron Carvic

    Heron Carvic was a British actor and writer who provided the voice acting for Gandalf in the BBC Radio version of The Hobbit. As a writer he wrote the first five of the Miss Seeton mysteries....
    , Picture Miss Seeton
  • Stanley Ellin
    Stanley Ellin

    Stanley Bernard Ellin was an United States mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He garnered a love for reading at a young age with an interest in works by the likes of Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and Edgar Allan Poe....
    , The Valentine Estate


1968 - Donald E. Westlake
Donald E. Westlake

Donald Edwin Westlake was an United States writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially Caper story with an occasional foray into science fiction....
, God Save the Mark
  • George Baxt, A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures
  • Dick Francis
    Dick Francis

    Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
    , Flying Finish
  • Charlotte Armstrong
    Charlotte Armstrong

    Charlotte Armstrong Lewi was an United States author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote over 28 novels, as well as working for the New York Times advertising department, as a fashion reporter for Breath of the Avenue , and in an accounting firm....
    , Lemon in the Basket
  • Ira Levin
    Ira Levin

    Ira Levin was an United States author, dramatist and songwriter....
    , Rosemary's Baby
  • Charlotte Armstrong
    Charlotte Armstrong

    Charlotte Armstrong Lewi was an United States author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote over 28 novels, as well as working for the New York Times advertising department, as a fashion reporter for Breath of the Avenue , and in an accounting firm....
    , The Gift Shop


1967 - Nicolas Freeling
Nicolas Freeling

Nicolas Freeling born Nicolas Davidson, was a British crime novel, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels which were adapted for transmission on the United Kingdom ITV network by Thames Television during the 1970s....
, King of the Rainy Country
  • Ngaio Marsh
    Ngaio Marsh

    Dame Ngaio Marsh British honours system , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a crime writer and theatre director from New Zealand. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900....
    , Killer Dolphin
  • Dick Francis
    Dick Francis

    Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
    , Odds Against
  • Donald E. Westlake
    Donald E. Westlake

    Donald Edwin Westlake was an United States writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially Caper story with an occasional foray into science fiction....
    , The Busy Body


1966 - Adam Hall
Elleston Trevor

Elleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the United Kingdom novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith , who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone....
, The Quiller Memorandum
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum is a film adaptation of the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Elleston Trevor, screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson , featuring George Segal, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger and Alec Guinness....
  • Mary Stewart
    Mary Stewart

    Mary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular England novelist, best known for her series about Merlin , which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre....
    , Airs Above the Ground
    Airs Above the Ground

    Airs Above the Ground is a novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1965. The title is from Dressage#Airs_above_the_ground....
  • Len Deighton
    Len Deighton

    Leonard Cyril Deighton is a United Kingdom historian, cookery expert and novelist, perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a The Ipcress File starring Michael Caine....
    , Funeral in Berlin
    Funeral in Berlin

    Funeral in Berlin is a spy novel by Len Deighton.The subject of the novel ? arranging a Soviet scientist's defection ? is , but the characters remain memorable....
  • Ross Macdonald
    Ross Macdonald

    Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the United States-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar . He is best known for his highly acclaimed series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer....
    , The Far Side of the Dollar
  • Dorothy Salisbury Davis
    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis is an United States crime fiction writer....
    , The Pale Betrayer
  • H. R. F. Keating
    H. R. F. Keating

    Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating is an England crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID....
    , The Perfect Murder
    The Perfect Murder

    The Perfect Murder is a 1988 in film English language language Indian film directed by Zafar Hai and produced by Merchant-Ivory. The film is based on the 1964 novel The Perfect Murder by British crime fiction writer HRF Keating and stars Naseeruddin Shah as Inspector Ghote, the leading character in Keating's novels....
     


1965 - John le Carré
John le Carré

John le Carr? is an English author of spy fiction, several of which have been adapted for film and television. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, before leaving the secret service to devote himself to writing after the success of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold....
, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , by John le Carr? is a Cold War spy novel famous for its intricate plot and its portrait of the West's espionage methods as inconsistent with Western values....
  • Margaret Millar
    Margaret Millar

    Margaret Ellis Millar was an American-Canadian mystery fiction and thriller fiction writer.Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Ontario, she was educated there and in Toronto....
    , The Fiend
  • Hans Hellmut Kirst
    Hans Hellmut Kirst

    Hans Hellmut Kirst was a distinguished Germany author from Ostr?da, East Prussia.Kirst wrote many books which have been translated into English....
    , The Night of the Generals
  • Mary Stewart
    Mary Stewart

    Mary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular England novelist, best known for her series about Merlin , which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre....
    , This Rough Magic
    This Rough Magic

    This Rough Magic is a novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1964. The title is a quote from The Tempest....
     


1964 - Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler

Eric Clifford Ambler Order of the British Empire was an influential England author of spy novels ,who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda....
, The Light of Day
  • Stanton Forbes, Grieve for the Past
  • Dorothy B. Hughes
    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Dorothy B. Hughes was an United Statesn crime writer and literary critic. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse ....
    , The Expendable Man
  • Elizabeth Fenwick, The Make-Believe Man
  • Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen

    File:Ellery Queen NYWTS.jpgEllery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee , to write detective fiction....
    , The Player on the Other Side


1963 - Ellis Peters
Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, British Empire Medal was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech literature classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern....
, Death and the Joyful Woman
  • Dell Shannon
    Elizabeth Linington

    Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington was a prolific American novelist. She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1961 tome, Nightmare, and her 1962 entry in her Luis Mendoza series, Knave of Hearts....
    , Knave of Hearts
  • Mark McShane, Seance
  • Shelley Smith, The Ballad of the Running Man
  • Jean Potts, The Evil Wish
  • Ross Macdonald
    Ross Macdonald

    Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the United States-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar . He is best known for his highly acclaimed series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer....
    , The Zebra-Striped Hearse


1962 - J. J. Marric
John Creasey

John Creasey was a prolific England crime writer, who published in excess of 600 novels under 28 different pseudonyms, creating along the way many characters who are now internationally famous....
, Gideon's Fire
  • Lionel Davidson
    Lionel Davidson

    Lionel Davidson is an England novelist who has written a number of acclaimed spy fiction....
    , The Night of Wenceslas
    The Night of Wenceslas

    The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of United Kingdom Thriller and Crime fiction writer Lionel Davidson. It describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English people and Czech people parentage who finds himself caught up against his will in Cold War espionage....
  • Anne Blaisdell, Nightmare
  • Suzanne Blanc, The Green Stone
  • Ross Macdonald
    Ross Macdonald

    Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the United States-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar . He is best known for his highly acclaimed series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer....
    , The Wycherly Woman


1961 - Julian Symons
Julian Symons

Julian Gustave Symons was a United Kingdom crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature....
, Progress of a Crime
  • Peter Curtis
    Norah Lofts

    Norah Lofts, n?e Norah Robinson, was a 20th century Best-seller United Kingdom author. She wrote over fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote non-fiction and short stories....
    , The Devil's Own
  • Herbert Brean
    Herbert Brean

    Herbert Brean was an United States journalist and crime fiction writer, best known for his recurring series characters William Deacon and Reynold Frame....
    , The Traces of Brillhart
  • Geoffrey Household
    Geoffrey Household

    Geoffrey Edward West Household was a prolific British novelist who specialized in Thriller s. He is best known for his 1939 in literature novel Rogue Male....
    , Watcher in the Shadows


1960 - Celia Fremlin
Celia Fremlin

Celia Margaret Fremlin was born in Kingsbury, now part of London, England, the sister of nuclear physicist, John H. Fremlin. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford University....
, The Hours Before Dawn
  • Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald

    Philip MacDonald was an England author of Thriller . He was the grandson of the writer George MacDonald and son of the author Ronald MacDonald and the actress Constance Robertson....
    , The List of Adrian Messenger


1950s

1959 - Stanley Ellin
Stanley Ellin

Stanley Bernard Ellin was an United States mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He garnered a love for reading at a young age with an interest in works by the likes of Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and Edgar Allan Poe....
, The Eighth Circle
  • Dorothy Salisbury Davis
    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis is an United States crime fiction writer....
    , A Gentleman Called
  • David Alexander, The Madhouse in Washington Square
  • Lee Blackstock, The Woman in the Woods
1958 - Ed Lacy
Ed Lacy

Ed Lacy , born Leonard "Len" S. Zinberg, was an United States writer....
, Room to Swing
  • Arthur Upfield
    Arthur Upfield

    Arthur William Upfield was an Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Bony of the Queensland Police Force....
    , The Bushman Who Came Back
  • Bill Ballinger
    Bill S. Ballinger

    Bill S. Ballinger born William Sanborn Ballinger 13 March 1912 in Oskaloosa, Iowa died 23 March 1980 Tarzana, California was a prolific American author and screenwriter....
    , The Longest Second
  • Marjorie Carleton, The Night of the Good Children
1957 - Charlotte Armstrong
Charlotte Armstrong

Charlotte Armstrong Lewi was an United States author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote over 28 novels, as well as working for the New York Times advertising department, as a fashion reporter for Breath of the Avenue , and in an accounting firm....
, A Dram of Poison
  • Margot Bennett
    Margot Bennett

    Margot Bennett was a writer of crime novel and Thriller novels. She was educated in Scotland and Australia. Worked as a copywriter in Sydney and London, and as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War....
    , The Man Who Didn't Fly
1956 - Margaret Millar
Margaret Millar

Margaret Ellis Millar was an American-Canadian mystery fiction and thriller fiction writer.Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Ontario, she was educated there and in Toronto....
, Beast in View
  • The Gordons
    The Gordons (writers)

    The Gordons are crime fiction authors Gordon Gordon born in Anderson, Indiana 12 March 1906 died 14 March 2002 and his wife Mildred Gordon nee Nixon born 24 June 1912 in Kansas died 3 February 1979 in Tucson, Arizona....
    , The Case of the Talking Bug
  • Patricia Highsmith
    Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith was an United States author known for her psychological thrillers, which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Strangers on a Train has been adapted for the screen three times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951....
    , The Talented Mr. Ripley
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. This novel first introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who would return in the novels Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water, known collectively as the Ripliad....
1955 - Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an United States crime fiction, who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private eye story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre....
, The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye (novel)

The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some consider it not on the level of The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work....
 1954 - Charlotte Jay
Charlotte Jay

Charlotte Jay was the pseudonym adopted by Australian mystery writer and novelist, Geraldine Halls . One of the best and most singular authors of the suspense era , she wrote only nine crime books, but their unorthodoxy secured her a high place in Mystery fiction Hall of Fame....
, Beat Not the Bones

2008 winners

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2008, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2007, are Down River by John Hart for Best Novel, In the Woods
In the Woods

In the Woods is a mystery novel by Tana French. The central theme is the summer evening, , when twelve year-old Adam and his two best friends failed to come home from a trip into the familiar woods bordering their Ireland estate ....
 by Tana French for Best First Novel By An American Author, Queenpin by Megan Abbott for Best Paperback Original, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent Bugliosi is an United States Lawyer and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Sharon Tate-Leno LaBianca murders....
 for Best Fact Crime, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley for Best Critical/Biographical, "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight
Susan Straight

Susan Straight is an United States author and National Book Award finalist....
 for Best Short Story, The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh
Katherine Marsh

Katherine Marsh is a writer of children's fantasy literature and an editor of nonfiction articles.She was a high school teacher before moving to New York City, where she began writing for magazines such as Rolling Stone and Good Housekeeping....
 for Best Juvenile, Rat Life by Tedd Arnold
Tedd Arnold

Tedd Arnold is a children's book writer and illustrator. He has written over 50 books, and he has won the "Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor" for his book "Hi! Fly Guy!"....
 for Best Young Adult, Panic by Joseph Goodrich for Best Play, "Pilot
Pilot (Burn Notice)

Pilot is the first episode of Burn Notice , an United States television drama series created for the USA Network.A Espionage kicked out of the agency is stuck in Miami, where he helps locals who can't rely on the police....
" - Burn Notice
Burn Notice (TV series)

Burn Notice is an United States television comedy-drama series created by Matt Nix and starring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, and Sharon Gless....
, Teleplay by Matt Nix
Matt Nix

Matthew E. Nix is an American television writer, producer, and director, likely best known for executive producing and showrunning the 2007 USA Network television series Burn Notice ....
 for Best Television Episode Teleplay, Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton (film)

Michael Clayton is a 2007 in film United States drama film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack. It stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson , Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack....
, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy

Anthony Joseph Gilroy is an United States screenwriter and Film director. He wrote the screenplays for the Jason Bourne series starring Matt Damon....
 for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was presented to "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books).

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