The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year. Categories in 2003 included: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... The Mystery Writers of America are an organization for mystery writers. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... It has been suggested that Drama (art form) be merged into this article or section. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 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

Here is a list of the Edgar Best Novel award winners Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

• 2006 Jess Walter, Citizen Vince
• 2005 T. Jefferson Parker, California Girl
• 2004 Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men
• 2003 S. J. Rozan, Winter and Night
• 2002 T. Jefferson Parker, Silent Joe
• 2001 Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms
• 2000 Jan Burke, Bones
• 1999 Robert Clark, Mr. White's Confession
• 1998 James Lee Burke, Cimarron Rose
• 1997 Thomas H. Cook, The Chatham School Affair
• 1996 Dick Francis, Come to Grief
• 1995 Mary Willis Walker, The Red Scream
• 1994 Minette Walters, The Sculptress
• 1993 Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter
• 1992 Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
• 1991 Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning
• 1990 James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues
• 1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky, A Cold Red Sunrise
• 1988 Aaron Elkins, Old Bones
• 1987 Barbara Vine, A Dark Adapted Eye
• 1986 L.R. Wright, The Suspect
• 1985 Ross Thomas, Briarpatch
• 1984 Elmore Leonard, La Brava
• 1983 Rick Boyer, Billinsgate Shoal
• 1982 William Bayer, Peregrine
• 1981 Dick Francis, Whip Hand
• 1980 Arthur Maling, The Rheingold Route
• 1979 Ken Follett, The Eye of the Needle
• 1978 William Hallahan, Catch Me: Kill Me
• 1977 Robert B. Parker, Promised Land
• 1976 Brian Garfield, Hopscotch
• 1975 Jon Cleary, Peter's Pence
• 1974 Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead
• 1973 Warren Kiefer, The Lingala Code
• 1972 Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
• 1971 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo, The Laughing Policeman
• 1970 Dick Francis, Forfeit
• 1969 Michael Crichton writing as Jeffrey Hudson, A Case of Need
• 1968 Donald E. Westlake, God Save the Mark
• 1967 Nicholas Freeling, King of the Rainy Country
• 1966 Adam Hall, The Quiller Memorandum
• 1965 John le Carré, The Spy who Came in from the Cold
• 1964 Eric Ambler, The Light of Day
• 1963 Ellis Peters, Death of the Joyful Woman
• 1962 J. J. Marric, Gideon's Fire
• 1961 Julian Symons, Progress of a Crime
• 1960 Celia Fremlin, The Hours Before Dawn
• 1959 Stanley Ellin, The Eighth Circle
• 1958 Ed Lacy, Room to Swing
• 1957 Charlotte Armstrong, A Dram of Poison
• 1956 Margaret Millar, Beast in View
• 1955 Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
• 1954 Charlotte Jay, Beat not the Bones

2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... T. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ian Rankin (born April 28, 1960 in Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers of the United Kingdom, and one of the worlds foremost writers in the genre. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... T. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Joe R. Lansdale is an author from Texas. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... There are several people by the name of Robert Clark: Robert Clark, American television actor. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... James Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas H. Cook (born 1947) is a American crime-writer, author of the Edgar Award winning novel The Chatham School Affair. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The cover of the Pan 1988 paperback edition of Bolt Dick Francis (born October 31, 1920) is a British jockey and author. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Minette Walters (b. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series, about recovering-alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... James Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aaron Elkins (born July 24, 1935) is an American writer of mystery novels. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is a British best-selling mystery and psychological crime writer, often called the Queen of Crime. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Laurali Rose Wright (1939-2001) was a Canadian writer of mystery novels. ... This article is about the year. ... Ross Thomas (born February 19, 1926 in Oklahoma City, USA, died December 18, 1995 in Santa Monica, USA) was a mystery writer. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elmore John Leonard Jr. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The cover of the Pan 1988 paperback edition of Bolt Dick Francis (born October 31, 1920) is a British jockey and author. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. ... Eye of the Needle is a spy thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Robert B. Parkers novel Cold Service Robert B. Parker (born September 17, 1932) is an acclaimed American writer of detective fiction. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... Brian Francis Wynne Garfield was born in New York in 1939. ... Hopscotch is a novel by Brian Garfield, in which a retired CIA agent invites his old agency to pursue him by writing an exposé and mailing chapters of it piecemeal to publishers. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Jon Cleary in an Australian writer of many books, among them The Sundowners and The High Commissioner. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... Tony Hillerman (born May 27, 1925 in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma) is an award-winning contemporary American author of detective novels and non-fiction works. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... Frederick Forsyth Frederick Forsyth (born August 25, 1938) is a British author and occasional political commentator. ... The Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1971, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Maj Sjöwall (born 1935) is a Swedish author. ... Per Wahlöö (1926-1975) was a Swedish author. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... The cover of the Pan 1988 paperback edition of Bolt Dick Francis (born October 31, 1920) is a British jockey and author. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (born October 23, 1942, pronounced // [1]) is an American author, film producer and television producer. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Donald Edwin Westlake (born July 12th, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York), is a prolific American writer, with over a hundred books, specializing in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional bit of science fiction. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Nicolas Freeling born Nicolas Davidson, (March 3, 1927 - July 20, 2003) was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels, which became a popular British early 1970s TV series. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Adam Hall (Born August 14, 1980 in Kalamazoo, MI) is a professional ice hockey player. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is an espionage novel by John le Carré, which tells the story of Alec Lemas, a British spy, who resigns from the Circus (as the British Secret Service is known in John le Carrés books) and defects to East Germany. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Eric Ambler (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer who essentially invented the modern spy novel. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Edith Mary Pargeter (September 28, 1913 - October 14, 1995) was a prolific British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honored for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... John Creasey (September 17, 1908 – June 9, 1973) was born in Southfields, Surrey, England and died in Tucson Arizona, USA. He was the seventh of nine children in a working class home. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Julian Gustave Symons (1912 - 1994) was a British writer, best known for crime fiction. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ed Lacy (1911 - 1968), born Leonard Len S. Zinberg, was a mystery writer. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (b. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Margaret Millar (* 1915 in Kitchener, Ontario, † 1994) was a US-Canadian Mystery and Suspense writer. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American author of crime stories and novels. ... The Long Goodbye (ISBN 0394757688) is a 1954 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pseudonym of Australian mystery writer Geraldine Halls (1919-1996). ...

External links

• Mystery Writers of America's website
• List of the most honored Edgar Award nominees