Edgar Award
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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.[1] They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year.
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[edit] Categories
Categories in 2003 included:
- Best novel
- Best first novel by an American author
- Best paperback original
- Best critical / biographical
- Best fact crime
- Best short story
- Best young adult
- Best juvenile
- Best television episode teleplay
- Best motion picture screenplay
- Best play
[edit] Best Novel award winners
The award for Best Novel has been presented annually since 1954.
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Beat Not the Bones | Charlotte Jay |
| 1955 | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler |
| 1956 | Beast in View | Margaret Millar |
| 1957 | A Dram of Poison | Charlotte Armstrong |
| 1958 | Room to Swing | Ed Lacy |
| 1959 | The Eighth Circle | Stanley Ellin |
| 1960 | The Hours Before Dawn | Celia Fremlin |
| 1961 | The Progress of a Crime | Julian Symons |
| 1962 | Gideon's Fire | J. J. Marric |
| 1963 | Death and the Joyful Woman | Ellis Peters |
| 1964 | The Light of Day | Eric Ambler |
| 1965 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carré |
| 1966 | The Quiller Memorandum | Adam Hall |
| 1967 | The King of the Rainy Country | Nicolas Freeling |
| 1968 | God Save the Mark | Donald E. Westlake |
| 1969 | A Case of Need | Jeffery Hudson |
| 1970 | Forfeit | Dick Francis |
| 1971 | The Laughing Policeman | Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö |
| 1972 | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth |
| 1973 | The Lingala Code | Warren Kiefer |
| 1974 | Dance Hall of the Dead | Tony Hillerman |
| 1975 | Peter's Pence | Jon Cleary |
| 1976 | Hopscotch | Brian Garfield |
| 1977 | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker |
| 1978 | Catch Me: Kill Me | William H. Hallahan |
| 1979 | Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett |
| 1980 | The Rheingold Route | Arthur Maling |
| 1981 | Whip Hand | Dick Francis |
| 1982 | Peregrine | William Bayer |
| 1983 | Billingsgate Shoal | Rick Boyer |
| 1984 | La Brava | Elmore Leonard |
| 1985 | Briar Patch | Ross Thomas |
| 1986 | The Suspect | L. R. Wright |
| 1987 | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Barbara Vine |
| 1988 | Old Bones | Aaron Elkins |
| 1989 | A Cold Red Sunrise | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| 1990 | Black Cherry Blues | James Lee Burke |
| 1991 | New Orleans Mourning | Julie Smith |
| 1992 | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Lawrence Block |
| 1993 | Bootlegger's Daughter | Margaret Maron |
| 1994 | The Sculptress | Minette Walters |
| 1995 | The Red Scream | Mary Willis Walker |
| 1996 | Come to Grief | Dick Francis |
| 1997 | The Chatham School Affair | Thomas H. Cook |
| 1998 | Cimarron Rose | James Lee Burke |
| 1999 | Mr. White's Confession | Robert Clark |
| 2000 | Bones | Jan Burke |
| 2001 | The Bottoms | Joe R. Lansdale |
| 2002 | Silent Joe | T. Jefferson Parker |
| 2003 | Winter and Night | S. J. Rozan |
| 2004 | Resurrection Men | Ian Rankin |
| 2005 | California Girl | T. Jefferson Parker |
| 2006 | Citizen Vince | Jess Walter |
| 2007 | The Janissary Tree | Jason Goodwin |
[edit] References
- ^ Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture," collected in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0521797276 p. 206
[edit] External links
- Mystery Writers of America's website
- List of the most honored Edgar Award nomineesde:Edgar Allan Poe Award
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