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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Year Author Title Ref.
2008 Vincent Bugliosi The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy [3]
2009 Howard Blum American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century [4]
2010 Dave Cullen Columbine [5]
2012 Candice Millard Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President [34][6][27]
2013 Paul French Midnight in Peking [7]
2014 Daniel Stashower The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War [8]
2015 William J. Mann Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood [9][10]
2016 Allen Kurzweil Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully [11][12]
2017 Kate Summerscale The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer [13]
2018 David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI [14]
2019 Robert W. Fieseler Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation [15]
2020 Axton Betz-Hamilton The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity [16]
2021 Eric Eyre Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic [17][36]
2022 Elon Green Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York [23]

First Novel

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel was established in 1946. The winners are listed below.

Year Author Title Ref.
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.
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.
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.

Year Author Title Ref.
1954 Charlotte Jay Beat Not the Bones
1955 Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye [48]
1956 Margaret Millar Beast in View
1957 Charlotte Armstrong A Dram of Poison
1958 Ed Lacy Room to Swing
1959 Stanley Ellin The Eighth Circle
1960 Celia Fremlin The Hours Before Dawn
1961 Julian Symons The Progress of a Crime
1962 J. J. Marric Gideon's Fire
1963 Ellis Peters Death and the Joyful Woman
1964 Eric Ambler The Light of Day
1965 John le Carré The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [48]
1966 Adam Hall The Quiller Memorandum
1967 Nicolas Freeling King of the Rainy Country
1968 Donald E. Westlake God Save the Mark
1969 Michael Crichton A Case of Need
1970 Dick Francis Forfeit
1971 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö The Laughing Policeman
1972 Frederick Forsyth The Day of the Jackal
1973 Warren Kiefer The Lingala Code
1974 Tony Hillerman Dance Hall of the Dead
1975 Jon Cleary Peter's Pence
1976 Brian Garfield Hopscotch
1977 Robert B. Parker Promised Land
1978 William H. Hallahan Catch Me: Kill Me
1979 Ken Follett Eye of the Needle
1980 Arthur Maling The Rheingold Route
1981 Dick Francis Whip Hand
1982 William Bayer Peregrine
1983 Rick Boyer Billingsgate Shoal
1984 Elmore Leonard La Brava
1985 Ross Thomas Briarpatch
1986 L. R. Wright The Suspect
1987 Barbara Vine A Dark-Adapted Eye
1988 Aaron Elkins Old Bones
1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky A Cold Red Sunrise
1990 James Lee Burke Black Cherry Blues [48]
1991 Julie Smith New Orleans Mourning
1992 Lawrence Block A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
1993 Margaret Maron Bootlegger's Daughter
1994 Minette Walters The Sculptress
1995 Mary Willis Walker The Red Scream
1996 Dick Francis Come to Grief
1997 Thomas H. Cook The Chatham School Affair
1998 James Lee Burke Cimarron Rose [48]
1999 Robert Clark Mr. White's Confession
2000 Jan Burke Bones
2001 Joe R. Lansdale The Bottoms
2002 T. Jefferson Parker Silent Joe
2003 S. J. Rozan Winter and Night
2004 Ian Rankin Resurrection Men
2005 T. Jefferson Parker California Girl
2006 Jess Walter Citizen Vince
2007 Jason Goodwin The Janissary Tree
2008 John Hart Down River [3]
2009 C. J. Box Blue Heaven [4][48]
2010 John Hart The Last Child [5][49][50]
2011 Steve Hamilton The Lock Artist [51][52]
2012 Mo Hayder Gone [6][27][53][34]
2013 Dennis Lehane Live by Night [7][54][55][56]
2014 William Kent Krueger Ordinary Grace [8][57][58][35][59]
2015 Stephen King Mr. Mercedes [47][9][10]
2016 Lori Roy Let Me Die in His Footsteps [60][11][12]
2017 Noah Hawley Before the Fall [61][62][63]
2018 Attica Locke Bluebird, Bluebird [64][65][66]
2019 Walter Mosley Down the River Unto the Sea [67][68][69]
2020 Elly Griffiths The Stranger Diaries [70][71][72]
2021 Deepa Anappara Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line [17][36][73]
2022 James Kestrel Five Decembers [23][74][75]

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.
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.
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

  • Edogawa Rampo Prize

References

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