Edgar Awards
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America,[1] based in New York City.[2] Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
Active author categories
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was established in 1984 to honor the best first mystery short story by an American author. The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Publication | Ref. |
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2008 | Mark Ammons | "The Catch" | Still Waters | [3] |
2009 | Joseph Guglielmelli | "Buckner's Error" | Queens Noir | [4] |
2010 | Dan Warthman | "A Dreadful Day" | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | [5] |
2012 | David Ingram | "A Good Man of Business" | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | [6] |
2013 | Patricia Smith | "When They Are Done With Us" | Staten Island Noir | [7] |
2014 | Jeff Soloway | "The Wentworth Letter" | Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional | [8] |
2015 | Zoe Z. Bell | "Getaway Girl" | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | [9][10] |
2016 | Russell W. Johnson | "Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick" | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | [11][12] |
2017 | E. Gabriel Flores | "The Truth of the Moment" | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | [13] |
2018 | Lisa D. Gray | "The Queen of Secrets" | [14] | |
2019 | Nancy Novick | "How Does He Die This Time?" | [15] | |
2020 | Derrick Harriell | "There’s a Riot Goin' On" | Milwaukee Noir | [16] |
2021 | Colette Bancroft | "The Bite" | Tampa Bay Noir | [17] |
2022 | Rob Osler | "Analogue" | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | [18] |
Lilian Jackson Braun Award
The Lilian Jackson Braun Award was established in 2022 to honor Lilian Jackson Braun and is presented in the "best full-length, contemporary cozy mystery as submitted to and selected by a special MWA committee."[19][20]
Sue Grafton Memorial Award
The Sue Grafton Memorial Award was established in 2019 to honor Sue Grafton and is presented to "the best novel in a series featuring a female protagonist."[21] The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2019 | Sara Paretsky | Shell Game | [22] |
2020 | Tracy Clark | Borrowed Time | [22] |
2021 | Rosalie Knecht | Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery | [17] |
2022 | Tracy Clark | Runner | [23] |
Grand Master Award
The Edgar Allen Poe Grand Master Award was established in 1955. The award "acknowledges important contributions to the genre as well as for a body of work that is both significant and of consistent high quality."[24] Winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Ref. |
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2007 | Stephen King | [25] |
2010 | Dorothy Gilman | [26][5] |
2012 | Martha Grimes | [6][27] |
2013 | Ken Follett | [7] |
Margaret Maron | [7] | |
2014 | Robert Crais | [28][8][29] |
Carolyn Hart | [28][8][29] | |
2015 | Lois Duncan | [9][30][10] |
James Ellroy | [9][30][10] | |
2016 | Walter Mosley | [11][12] |
2017 | Max Allan Collins | [13][31] |
Ellen Hart | [13][31] | |
2019 | Linda Fairstein | [32] |
Martin Cruz Smith | [32] | |
2021 | Charlaine Harris | [17][24] |
Jeffery Deaver | [17][24] | |
2022 | Laurie R. King | [23] |
2023 | Michael Connelly | |
Joanne Fluke |
Raven Award
The Raven Award was established in 1953 to honor "outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside of the realm of creative writing."[33]
Ellery Queen Award
The Ellery Queen Award was established in 1983 "to honor outstanding writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry."[33] The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Information | Ref. |
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2010 | Barbara Peters and Robert Rosenwald | Poisoned Pen Press | [26] |
2012 | Joe Meyers | Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group | [6][27] |
2013 | Akashic Books | American book publisher | [7] |
2015 | Charles Ardai | Co-founder of Hard Case Crime | [9][30][10] |
2016 | Janet Rudolph | [11][12] | |
2017 | Neil Nyren | Executive V-P, associate publisher, and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons | [13][31] |
2019 | Linda Landrigan | Editor of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | [32] |
2021 | Reagan Arthur | [17] | |
2022 | Juliet Grames | Soho Press – Soho Crime | [23] |
Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award was established in 2001.
Active story categories
Critical/Biographical Work
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work was established in 1977. The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2008 | Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley | Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters | [3] |
2009 | Dr. Harry Lee Poe | Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories | [4] |
2010 | Otto Penzler | The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives | [5] |
2012 | Michael Dirda | On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling | [6][27][34] |
2013 | James O'Brien | The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics | [7] |
2014 | Erik Dussere | America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture | [8][35] |
2015 | J. W. Ocker | Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe | [9][10] |
2016 | Martin Edwards | The Golden Age of Murder | [11][12] |
2017 | Ruth Franklin | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | |
2018 | Lawrence P. Jackson | Chester B. Himes: A Biography | [14] |
2019 | Leslie S. Klinger | Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s | [15] |
2020 | John Billheimer | Hitchcock and the Censors | [16] |
2021 | Christina Lane | Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock | [17][36] |
2022 | Edward White | The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense | [23] |
Fact Crime
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime was established in 1948. The winners are listed below.
First Novel
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel was established in 1946. The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1946 | Julius Fast | Watchful at Night | |
1947 | Helen Eustis | The Horizontal Man | |
1948 | Fredric Brown | The Fabulous Clipjoint | |
1949 | Mildred B. Davis | The Room Upstairs | |
1950 | Alan Green | What A Body | |
1951 | Thomas Walsh | Nightmare in Manhattan | |
1952 | Mary McMullen | Strangle Hold | |
1953 | William Campbell Gault | Don't Cry for Me | |
1954 | Ira Levin | A Kiss Before Dying | |
1955 | Jean Potts | Go, Lovely Rose | |
1956 | Lane Kauffman | The Perfectionist | |
1957 | Donald McNutt Douglass | Rebecca's Pride | |
1958 | William Rawle Weeks | Knock and Wait a While | |
1959 | Richard Martin Stern | The Bright Road to Fear | |
1960 | Henry Slesar | The Grey Flannel Shroud | |
1961 | John Holbrooke Vance | The Man in the Cage | |
1962 | Suzanne Blanc | The Green Stone | |
1963 | Robert L. Fish | The Fugitive | |
1964 | Cornelius Hirschberg | Florentine Finish | |
1965 | Harry Kemelman | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late | |
1966 | John Ball | In the Heat of the Night | |
1967 | Ross Thomas | The Cold War Swap | |
1968 | Michael Collins | Act of Fear | |
1969 | E. Richard Johnson | Tie: Silver Street | |
Dorothy Uhnak | The Bait | ||
1970 | Joe Gores | A Time of Predators | [37] |
1971 | Lawrence Sanders | The Anderson Tapes | |
1972 | A. H. Z. Carr | Finding Maubee | |
1973 | R. H. Shimer | Squaw Point | |
1974 | Paul Erdman | The Billion Dollar Sure Thing | |
1975 | Gregory Mcdonald | Fletch | |
1976 | Rex Burns | The Alvarez Journal | |
1977 | James Patterson | The Thomas Berryman Number | |
1978 | Robert Ross | A French Finish | |
1979 | William L. DeAndrea | Killed in the Ratings | |
1980 | Richard North Patterson | The Lasko Tangent | |
1981 | K. Nolte Smith | The Watcher | |
1982 | Stuart Woods | Chiefs | |
1983 | Thomas Perry | The Butcher's Boy | |
1984 | Will Harriss | The Bay Psalm Book Murder | |
1985 | R. D. Rosen | Strike Three, You're Dead | |
1986 | Jonathan Kellerman | When the Bough Breaks | |
1987 | Larry Beinhart | No One Rides for Free | |
1988 | Deidre S. Laiken | Death Among Strangers | |
1989 | David Stout | Carolina Skeletons | |
1990 | Susan Wolfe | The Last Billable Hour | |
1991 | Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem | |
1992 | Peter Blauner | Slow Motion Riot | |
1993 | Michael Connelly | The Black Echo | |
1994 | Laurie R. King | A Grave Talent | |
1995 | George Dawes Green | The Caveman's Valentine | |
1996 | David Housewright | Penance | |
1997 | John Morgan Wilson | Simple Justice | |
1998 | Joseph Kanon | Los Alamos | |
1999 | Steve Hamilton | A Cold Day in Paradise | |
2000 | Eliot Pattison | The Skull Mantra | |
2001 | David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper | |
2002 | David Ellis | Line of Vision | |
2003 | Jonathon King | The Blue Edge of Midnight | |
2004 | Rebecca Pawel | Death of a Nationalist | |
2005 | Don Lee | Country of Origin | |
2006 | Theresa Schwegel | Officer Down | [38] |
2007 | Alex Berenson | The Faithful Spy | [39] |
2008 | Tana French | In the Woods | [3] |
2009 | Francie Lin | The Foreigner | [4] |
2010 | Stefanie Pintoff | In the Shadow of Gotham | [5] |
2011 | Bruce DeSilva | Rogue Island | |
2012 | Lori Roy | Bent Road | [6][27][34] |
2013 | Chris Pavone | The Expats | [7] |
2014 | Jason Matthews | Red Sparrow | [29][8] |
2015 | Tom Bouman | Dry Bones in the Valley | [9][10] |
2016 | Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer | [11][12] |
2017 | Flynn Berry | Under the Harrow | [40][13] |
2018 | Jordan Harper | She Rides Shotgun | [41] |
2019 | James A. McLaughlin | Bearskin | [42] |
2020 | Angie Kim | Miracle Creek | [43] |
2021 | Caitlin Mullen | Please See Us | [17][44][36] |
2022 | Erin Flanigan | Deer Season | [23][45] |
Episode in a Television Series
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series was established in 1952. The winners are listed below.
Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Ref. |
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1952 | — | The Web | Franklin Heller | |
1953 | — | Dragnet | Jack Webb | |
1954 | "Crime at Blossoms" | Studio One | Jerome Ross | |
1955 | "Smoke" | Suspense | Gore Vidal | |
"The Long Goodbye" | Climax! | E. Jack Neuman (based on the novel by Raymond Chandler) | ||
1956 | "Sting of Death" | Elgin Hour | Alvin Sapinsley Jr. (based on the novel A Taste for Honey by H. F. Heard) | |
"Thin Air" | Climax! | Ben Starr | ||
1957 | "The Fine Art of Murder" | Omnibus | Sidney Carroll | |
1958 | "Mechanical Manhunt" | The Alcoa Hour | Harold Swanton | |
"The Trial of Lizzie Borden" | Omnibus | Omnibus staff | ||
1959 | "The Edge of Truth" | Studio One | Adrian Spies | |
"Capital Punishment" | Omnibus | James Lee | ||
1960 | "The Empty Chair" | The Untouchables | David Karp | |
1961 | "The Case of the Burning Court" | Dow Hour of Great Mysteries | Kelley Roos | |
1962 | "Witness in the Dark" | Kraft Mystery Theater | John Lemont, Leigh Vance | |
1963 | "The Problem of Cell 13" | Kraft Mystery Theatre | A.A. Roberts | |
1964 | "The End of the World Baby" | Kraft Suspense Hour | Luther Davis | |
1965 | — | The Fugitive | Alan Armer | |
1966 | "An Unlocked Window" | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | James Bridges | |
1967 | "Operation Rogesh" | Mission: Impossible | Jerome Ross | |
1968 | "Tempest in a Texas Town" | Judd, for the Defense | Harold Gast, Leon Tokatyan | |
1969 | "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde" | ABC Special | Ian Hunter | |
1970 | "Daughter of the Mind" | ABC Movie of the Week | Luther Davis | |
1971 | "Berlin Affair" | NBC Movie of the Week | E. Jack Neuman & Richard Alan Simmons | |
1972 | "A Step in Time" | Mannix | Mann Rubin | |
1973 | "The New Mexico Connection" | McCloud | Glen A. Larson | |
1974 | "Requiem for an Informer" | Police Story | Sy Salkowitz | |
1975 | "Requiem For C.Z. Smith" | Police Story | Robert L. Collins | |
1976 | "No Immunity for Murder" | Kojak | Joe Gores | |
1977 | "Requiem for Murder" | The Streets of San Francisco | James Johnson Sweeney | |
1978 | "The Thighbone Is Connected To The Knee Bone" | Quincy M.E. | Tony Lawrence, Lou Shaw | |
1979 | "Murder Under Glass" | Columbo | Robert van Scoyk | |
1980 | "Skin" | Tales of the Unexpected | Robin Chapman, Roald Dahl | |
1981 | "China Doll" | Magnum, P.I. | Donald P. Bellisario & Glen A. Larson | |
1982 | "Hill Street Station" | Hill Street Blues | Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll | |
1983 | "In the Steele Of The Night" | Remington Steele | Joel Steiger | |
1984 | "The Pencil" | Philip Marlowe, Private Eye | Jo Eisinger | |
1985 | "Deadly Lady" | Murder, She Wrote | Peter S. Fischer | |
1986 | "The Amazing Falsworth" | Amazing Stories | Mick Garris | |
1987 | "The Cup" | The Equalizer | David Jackson | |
1988 | "The Musgrave Ritual" | Masterpiece Mystery | Jeremy Paul | |
1989 | "The Devil's Foot" | Masterpiece Mystery | Gary Hopkins | |
1990 | "White Noise" | Wiseguy | David J. Burke, Alfonse Ruggiero | |
1991 | "Good Night, Dear Heart" | Quantum Leap | Paul Brown | |
2001 | "Limitations" | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Michael R. Perry | |
2003 | "Waste" | Law & Order: SVU | Dawn DeNoon, Lisa Marie Petersen | |
2004 | "Goodbye" | The Practice | Peter Blake, David E. Kelley | |
2005 | "Want" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Elizabeth Benjamin (teleplay/story), René Balcer (story) | |
2006 | "Amulet" | Sea of Souls | Ed Whitmore | |
2007 | "Episode 1" | Life on Mars | Matthew Graham | |
2008 | "Pilot" | Burn Notice | Matt Nix | [46] |
2009 | "Prayer of the Bone" | Wire in the Blood | Patrick Harbinson | |
2010 | "Place of Execution" | Place of Execution | Patrick Harbinson | |
2011 | "Episode 1" | Luther | Neil Cross | |
2012 | "Pilot" | Homeland | Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff | [34] |
2013 | "A Scandal in Belgravia" | Sherlock | Steven Moffat | [7] |
2014 | "Episode 1" | The Fall | Allan Cubitt | |
2015 | "Episode 1" | Happy Valley | Sally Wainwright | [47][9][10] |
2016 | "Gently with the Women" | Inspector George Gently | Peter Flannery | [11][12] |
2017 | "A Blade of Grass" | Penny Dreadful | John Logan | [13] |
2018 | "Somebody to Love" | Fargo | Noah Hawley | [14] |
2019 | "The One That Holds Everything" | The Romanoffs | Matthew Weiner, Donald Joh | [15] |
2020 | Season 5, Episode 4 | Line of Duty | Jed Mercurio | [16] |
2021 | "Episode 1, Photochemistry" | Dead Still | John Morton | [17] |
2022 | "Boots on the Ground" | Narcos: Mexico | Iturri Sosa | [23] |
Juvenile
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile was established in 1961. The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1961 | Phyllis A. Whitney | The Mystery of the Haunted Pool | |
1962 | Edward Fenton | The Phantom of Walkaway Hill | |
1963 | Scott Corbett | Cutlass Island | |
1964 | Phyllis A. Whitney | Mystery of the Hidden Hand | |
1965 | Marcella Thum | Mystery at Crane's Landing | |
1966 | Leon Ware | The Mystery of 22 East | |
1967 | Kin Platt | Sinbad and Me | |
1968 | Gretchen Sprague | Signpost to Terror | |
1969 | Virginia Hamilton | The House of Dies Drear | |
1970 | Winifred Finlay | Danger at Black Dyke | |
1971 | John Rowe Townsend | The Intruder | |
1972 | Joan Aiken | Night Fall | |
1973 | Robb White | Deathwatch | |
1974 | Jay Bennett | The Long Black Coat | |
1975 | Jay Bennett | The Dangling Witness | |
1976 | Robert C. O'Brien | Z for Zachariah | |
1977 | Richard Peck | Are You in the House Alone? | |
1978 | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | A Really Weird Summer | |
1979 | Dana Brookins | Alone in Wolf Hollow | |
1980 | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore | |
1981 | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Seance | |
1982 | Norma Fox Mazer | Taking Terri Mueller | |
1983 | Robbie Branscum | The Murder of Hound Dog Bates | |
1984 | Cynthia Voigt | The Callender Papers | |
1985 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Night Cry | |
1986 | Patricia Windsor | The Sandman's Eyes | |
1987 | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Other Side of Dark | |
1988 | Susan Shreve | Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks | |
1989 | Willo Davis Roberts | Megan's Island | |
1991 | Pam Conrad | Stonewords | |
1992 | Betsy Byars | Wanted...Mud Blossom | |
1993 | Eve Bunting | Coffin on a Case! | |
1994 | Barbara Brooks Wallace | The Twin in the Tavern | |
1995 | Willo Davis Roberts | The Absolutely True Story... How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes | |
1996 | Nancy Springer | Looking for Jamie Bridger | |
1997 | Dorothy Reynolds Miller | The Clearing | |
1998 | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Sparrows in the Scullery | |
1999 | Wendelin Van Draanen | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | |
2000 | Elizabeth McDavid Jones | The Night Flyers | |
2001 | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Dovey Coe | |
2002 | Lillian Eige | Dangling | |
2003 | Helen Ericson | Harriet Spies Again | |
2004 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry | |
2005 | Blue Balliett | Chasing Vermeer | |
2006 | D. James Smith | The Boys of San Joaquin | [38] |
2007 | Andrew Clements | Room One: a Mystery or Two | [39] |
2008 | Katherine Marsh | The Night Tourist | [3] |
2009 | Tony Abbott | The Postcard | [4] |
2010 | Mary Downing Hahn | Closed for the Season | [5] |
2011 | Dori Hillestad Butler | The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy | |
2012 | Matthew J. Kirby | Icefall | [34][6][27] |
2013 | Jack D. Ferraiolo | The Quick Fix | [7] |
2014 | Amy Timberlake | One Came Home | [35][8] |
2015 | Kate Milford | Greenglass House | [9][10] |
2016 | Susan Vaught | Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy | [11][12] |
2017 | Wesley King | OCDaniel | [40][13] |
2018 | James Ponti | Vanished! | [41] |
2019 | Pete Hautman | Otherwood | [42] |
2020 | Susan Vaught | Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | [43] |
2021 | Elizabeth C. Bunce | Premeditated Myrtle | [17][44][36] |
2022 | Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Concealed | [23][45] |
Novel
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel was established in 1954. The winners are listed below.
Paperback or eBook Original
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original was established in 1970. The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1970 | Scott C. S. Stone | The Dragon's Eye | |
1971 | Dan J. Marlowe | Flashpoint | |
1972 | Frank McAuliffe | For Murder I Charge More | |
1973 | Richard Wormser | The Invader | |
1974 | Will Perry | Death of an Informer | |
1975 | Roy Winsor | The Corpse That Walked | |
1976 | John R. Feegel | Autopsy | |
1977 | Gregory Mcdonald | Confess, Fletch | |
1978 | Mike Jahn | The Quark Maneuver | |
1979 | Frank Bandy | Deceit and Deadly Lies | |
1980 | William L. DeAndrea | The Hog Murders | |
1981 | Bill Granger | Public Murders | |
1982 | L. A. Morse | The Old Dick | |
1983 | Teri White | Triangle | |
1984 | Margaret Tracy | Mrs. White | |
1985 | Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy | Grandmaster | |
1986 | Warren Murphy | Pigs Get Fat | |
1987 | Robert Wright Campbell | The Junkyard Dog | |
1988 | Sharyn McCrumb | Bimbos of the Death Sun | |
1989 | Timothy Findley | The Telling of Lies | |
1990 | Keith Peterson | The Rain | |
1991 | David Handler | The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
1992 | Thomas Adcock | Dark Maze | |
1993 | Dana Stabenow | A Cold Day for Murder | |
1994 | Burl Barer | The Saint | |
1994 | Steven Womack | Dead Folk's Blues | |
1995 | Lisa Scottoline | Final Appeal | |
1996 | William Heffernan | Tarnished Blue | |
1997 | Harlan Coben | Fade Away | |
1998 | Laura Lippman | Charm City | |
1999 | Rick Riordan | The Widower's Two-Step | |
2000 | Ruth Birmingham | Fulton County Blues | |
2001 | Mark Graham | The Black Maria | |
2002 | Daniel Chavarria | Adios Muchachos | |
2003 | T. J. MacGregor | Out of Sight | |
2004 | Sylvia Maultash Warsh | Find Me Again | |
2005 | Domenic Stansberry | The Confession | |
2006 | Jeffrey Ford | Girl in the Glass | |
2007 | Naomi Hirahara | Snakeskin Shamisen | |
2008 | Megan Abbott | Queenpin | [3][76] |
2009 | Meg Gardiner | China Lake | [4] |
2010 | Marc Strange | Body Blows | [5] |
2011 | Robert Goddard | Long Time Coming | |
2012 | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Company Man | [6][27][34] |
2013 | Ben H. Winters | The Last Policeman | [7] |
2014 | Alex Marwood | The Wicked Girls | [8] |
2015 | Chris Abani | The Secret History of Las Vegas | [9][10] |
2016 | Lou Berney | The Long and Faraway Gone | [11][12] |
2017 | Adrian McKinty | Rain Dogs | [13] |
2018 | Anna Mazzola | The Unseeing | [14] |
2019 | Alison Gaylin | If I Die Tonight | [15] |
2020 | Adam O'Fallon Price | The Hotel Neversink | [16] |
2021 | Alyssa Cole | When No One Is Watching | [17] |
2022 | Alan Parks | Bobby March Will Live Forever | [23] |
Short Story
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story was established in 1951. Winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Story | Publication | Ref. |
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1951 | Lawrence Blochman | "Diagnosis: Homicide" | ||
1952 | John Collier | "Fancies and Goodnights" | ||
1953 | Philip MacDonald | "Something to Hide" | ||
1954 | Roald Dahl | "Someone Like You" | ||
1955 | Stanley Ellin | "The House Party" | ||
1956 | Philip MacDonald | "Dream No More" | ||
1957 | Stanley Ellin | "The Blessington Method" | ||
1958 | Gerald Kersh | "The Secret of the Bottle" | ||
1959 | William O'Farrell | "Over There, Darkness" | ||
1960 | Roald Dahl | "The Landlady" | ||
1961 | John Durham | "Tiger" | ||
1962 | Avram Davidson | "Affair at Lahore Cantonment" | ||
1963 | David Ely | "The Sailing Club" | ||
1964 | Leslie Ann Brownrigg | "Man Gehorcht" | ||
1965 | Lawrence Treat | "H as in Homicide" | ||
1966 | Shirley Jackson | "The Possibility of Evil" | ||
1967 | Rhys Davies | "The Chosen One" | ||
1968 | Edward D. Hoch | "The Oblong Room" | ||
1969 | Warner Law | "The Man Who Fooled the World" | ||
1970 | Joe Gores | "Goodbye, Pops" | ||
1971 | Margery Finn Brown | "In The Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed" | ||
1972 | Robert L. Fish | "Moonlight Gardener" | ||
1973 | Joyce Harrington | "The Purple Shroud" | ||
1974 | Harlan Ellison | "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" | ||
1975 | Ruth Rendell | "The Fallen Curtain" | ||
1976 | Jesse Hill Ford | "The Jail" | ||
1977 | Etta Revesz | "Like a Terrible Scream" | ||
1978 | Thomas Walsh | "Chance After Chance" | ||
1979 | Barbara Owens | "The Cloud Beneath The Eaves" | ||
1980 | Geoffrey Norman | "Armed and Dangerous" | ||
1981 | Clark Howard | "Horn Man" | ||
1982 | Jack Ritchie | "The Absence of Emily" | ||
1983 | Frederick Forsyth | "There Are No Snakes in Ireland" | ||
1984 | Ruth Rendell | "The New Girlfriend" | ||
1985 | Lawrence Block | "By Dawn's Early Light" | ||
1986 | John Lutz | "Ride the Lightning" | ||
1987 | Robert Sampson | "Rain in Pinton County" | ||
1988 | Harlan Ellison | "Soft Monkey" | ||
1989 | Bill Crenshaw | "Flicks" | ||
1990 | Donald E. Westlake | "Too Many Crooks" | ||
1991 | Lynne Barrett | "Elvis Lives" | ||
1992 | Wendy Hornsby | "Nine Sons" | ||
1993 | Benjamin M. Schutz | "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door" | ||
1994 | Lawrence Block | "Keller's Therapy" | ||
1995 | Doug Allyn | "The Dancing Bear" | ||
1996 | Jean B. Cooper | "The Judge's Boy" | ||
1997 | Michael Malone | "Red Clay" | ||
1998 | Lawrence Block | "Keller on the Spot" | ||
1999 | Tom Franklin | "Poachers" | ||
2000 | Anne Perry | "Heroes" | ||
2001 | Peter Robinson | "Missing in Action" | ||
2002 | S.J. Rozan | "Double-Crossing Delancey" | ||
2003 | Raymond Steiber | "Mexican Gatsby" | ||
2004 | G. Miki Hayden | "The Maids" | ||
2005 | Laurie Lynn Drummond | "Something About a Scar" | ||
2006 | James W. Hall | "The Catch" | ||
2007 | Charles Ardai | "The Home Front" | ||
2008 | Susan Straight | "The Golden Gopher" | Los Angeles Noir | [4] |
2009 | T. Jefferson Parker | "Skinhead Central" | Mystery Writers of America Presents: The Blue Religion | [4] |
2010 | Luis Alberto Urrea | "Amapola" | Phoenix Noir | [5] |
2011 | Doug Allyn | The Scent of Lilacs | ||
2012 | Peter Turnbull | "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | [6][27][34] |
2013 | Karin Slaughter | "The Unremarkable Heart" | Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance | [7] |
2014 | John Connolly | "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" | Bibliomysteries | [8] |
2015 | Gillian Flynn | "What Do You Do?" | Rogues | [9][10] |
2016 | Stephen King | "Obits" | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | [11][12] |
2017 | Lawrence Block | "Autumn at the Automat" | In Sunlight or in Shadow | [13] |
2018 | John Crowley | "Spring Break" | [14] | |
2019 | Art Taylor | "English 398: Fiction Workshop" | ||
2020 | Livia Llewellyn | "One of These Nights" | ||
2021 | Maaza Mengiste | "Dust, Ash, Flight" | [17][36] | |
2022 | R.T. Lawton | "The Road to Hana" | [18] |
Young Adult Novel
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel was established in 1989. The winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1989 | Sonia Levitin | Incident at Loring Groves | |
1990 | Alane Ferguson | Show Me the Evidence | |
1991 | Chap Reaver | Mote | |
1992 | Theodore Taylor | The Weirdo | |
1993 | Chap Reaver | A Little Bit Dead | |
1994 | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Name of the Game Was Murder | |
1995 | Nancy Springer | Toughing It | |
1996 | Rob MacGregor | Prophecy Rock | |
1997 | Willo Davis Roberts | Twisted Summer | |
1998 | Will Hobbs | Ghost Canoe | |
1999 | Nancy Werlin | The Killer's Cousin | |
2000 | Vivian Vande Velde | Never Trust a Dead Man | |
2001 | Elaine M. Alphin | Counterfeit Son | |
2002 | Tim Wynne-Jones | The Boy in the Burning House | |
2003 | Daniel Parker | The Wessex Papers | |
2004 | Graham McNamee | Acceleration | |
2005 | Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler | In Darkness, Death | |
2006 | John Feinstein | Last Shot | [38] |
2007 | Robin Merrow MacCready | Buried | [39] |
2008 | Tedd Arnold | Rat Life | [3] |
2009 | John Green | Paper Towns | [4] |
2010 | Peter Abrahams | Reality Check | [5] |
2011 | Charlie Price | The Interrogation of Gabriel James | |
2012 | Dandi Daley Mackall | The Silence of Murder | [6][27][34] |
2013 | Elizabeth Wein | Code Name Verity | [7] |
2014 | Annabel Pitcher | Ketchup Clouds | |
2015 | James Klise | The Art of Secrets | [9][10] |
2016 | Mindy McGinnis | A Madness So Discreet | [11][12] |
2017 | Monica Hesse | Girl in the Blue Coat | [40][13] |
2018 | Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | [41][14] |
2019 | Courtney Summers | Sadie | [42][15] |
2020 | Naomi Kritzer | Catfishing on CatNet | [43] |
2021 | Katie Alender | The Companion | [17][44] |
2022 | Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | [23][45] |
Discontinued categories
Book Jacket
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Book Jacket was established in 1955 discontinued in 1975.
Foreign Film
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Foreign Film was established in 1949 discontinued in 1966.
Motion Picture Screenplay
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay was established in 1946 and discontinued in 2009.
Mystery Criticism
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism was established in 1946 discontinued in 1967.
Play
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play was established in 1950 and is irregular.
Radio Drama
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Radio Drama was established in 1946 and discontinued in 1960.
Special Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Special Award was established in 1949 and is irregular.
Television Feature or Miniseries
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Television Feature of Miniseries was established in 1972 and discontinued in 2007.
See also
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External links
- Mystery Writers of America
- The official website of Edgar Awards (includes nominees)
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards at IMDb