Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work, established in 1977, is a literary award presented as part of the Edgar Awards for a nonfiction critical or biographical hardcover, paperback, or electronic book.
To be eligible, biographical books should be "biographies of mystery writers or other notable practitioners of the genre, not to criminals."[1] Criminal biographies are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime.[1]
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work winners are listed below.
Recipients
2000s
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2008 | Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley | Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters | Winner | [2] |
2009 | Dr. Harry Lee Poe | Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories | Winner | [3] |
2010s
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | Otto Penzler | The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives | Winner | |
2012 | Michael Dirda | On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling | Winner | [4][5] |
Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, and John-Henri Holmberg | The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time | Shortlist | [5] | |
John Curran | Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making | Shortlist | [5] | |
Philippa Gates | Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film | Shortlist | [5] | |
Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick | Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie | Shortlist | [5] | |
2013 | James O'Brien | The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics | Winner | [6] |
2014 | Erik Dussere | America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture | Winner | [7][8] |
Bill Alder | Maigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories | Shortlist | [8] | |
Justin Gifford | Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing | Shortlist | [8] | |
Andrew Lycett | Ian Fleming | Shortlist | [8] | |
Melissa Schaub | Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction | Shortlist | [8] | |
2015 | J. W. Ocker | Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe | Winner | [9][10] |
Charles Brownson | The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis | Shortlist | [9] | |
Jim Mancall | James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | Shortlist | [9] | |
Robert Miklitsch | Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Classic Film Noir | Shortlist | [9] | |
Francis M. Nevins | Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film | Shortlist | [9] | |
2016 | Martin Edwards | The Golden Age of Murder | Winner | [11][12] |
2017 | Ruth Franklin | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | Winner | [13] |
2018 | Lawrence P. Jackson | Chester B. Himes: A Biography | Winner | [14] |
2019 | Leslie S. Klinger | Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s | Winner | [15] |
2020s
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2020 | John Billheimer | Hitchcock and the Censors | Winner | [16][17] |
2021 | Christina Lane | Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock | Winner | [18][19] |
Martin Edwards | Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club | Shortlist | [19] | |
Erin E. MacDonald | Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery & Fiction | Shortlist | [19] | |
Elizabeth Mannionand Brian Cliff | Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction | Shortlist | [19] | |
Jacqueline Winspear | This Time Next Year We’ll be Laughing | Shortlist | [19] | |
2022 | Edward White | The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense | Winner | [20] |
2023 | Martin Edwards | The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators | Winner | [21] |
References
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- ^ "Awards: The Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke Prize". Shelf Awareness. May 2, 2008. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ "Awards: Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke". Shelf Awareness. May 1, 2009. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ "2012 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2012-11-03.
- ^ a b c d e Cogdill, Oline. "2012 Edgar Award Winners". Mystery Scene Magazine. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
- ^ "2013 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02.
- ^ "2014 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2014-11-10.
- ^ a b c d e "The 2014 Edgar Award Nominations and Winners". Heights Libraries. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
- ^ a b c d e "2015 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2015-11-08.
- ^ "Awards: Edgar Winners; Ridenhour Book". Shelf Awareness. May 1, 2015. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ "2016 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2016-11-05.
- ^ "Awards: Edgar Winners". Shelf Awareness. May 2, 2016. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ "2017 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-11-07.
- ^ "2018 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2018-11-10.
- ^ "2019 Nominees and Winners". Edgar Awards. Archived from the original on 2019-08-18.
- ^ "Edgar Award Nominees". www.theedgars.com. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ "Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ "2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners". Mystery Writers of America.
- ^ a b c d e "Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Edgar Awards". CrimeReads. 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
- ^ "2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners". Mystery Writers of America.
- ^ Schaub, Michael (2023-04-28). "Edgar Award Winners Are Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2023-05-01.