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 include:
- 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 |
| 2008 | Down River | John Hart |
[edit] 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 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 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 for Best Short Story, The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh for Best Juvenile, Rat Life by Tedd Arnold for Best Young Adult, Panic by Joseph Goodrich for Best Play, "Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix for Best Television Episode Teleplay, Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was presented to "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books).[2]
[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
- ^ Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2008 Edgar Award Winners (2008-05-01). Retrieved on 2009-05-02.
