Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... NY redirects here. ...

The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. Clayton Rawson (1906 - 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. ... Anthony Boucher (August 21, 1911 - April 29, 1968) [1] was an American science fiction editor and writer of mystery novels and short stories. ... Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (1903 - 1998), a three-time Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner, and pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals. ... Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 - February 4, 1977), primary pen name of Davis Dresser, was an American mystery writer, best known for the long_lived series of Mike Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write. ...

It presents the Edgar Award, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, every year. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... 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. ...

Grand Master Award

The Grand Master Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America. It recognizes lifetime achievement and consistent quality. (The award was presented irregularly through 1978; it has been given to one writer annually since then.)

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890—12 January 1976), also known as Dame Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE (13 May 1907–19 April 1989) was a famous British novelist best known for her short story The Birds and her classic novel Rebecca, published in 1938. ... 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. ... Vincent Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974) was an American writer and newspaperman. ... Dorothy Belle Hughes (1904—May 6, 1993) was a U.S. crime writer and critic. ... Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels. ... Rex Stout, full name Rex Todhunter Stout, (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. ... Ngaio Marsh DBE (April 23, 1895 - February 18, 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh was an author and theatre director from New Zealand. ... The cover of the Pan 1988 paperback edition of Bolt Dick Francis CBE (born October 31, 1920) is a British author and retired jockey. ... Frederic Dannay (left), with James Yaffe (1943) Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel (David) Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905–September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905–April... George Bagby was the nom de plume of the American novelist Aaron Marc Stein (1906-1985), who specialized in mystery fiction. ... Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, 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. ... The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933), 1953 U.S. paperback edition The Case of the Negligent Nymph (1956), 1958 Pan paperback edition. ... William Riley Burnett (November 25, 1899 - April 25, 1982), often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. ... Elizabeth Peters (a pen-name of Barbara Mertz) has written many books in the mystery genre, featuring strong female protagonists and many archaeological connections. ... The Four False Weapons (1948), 1961 Pan paperback edition. ... Stanley Bernard Ellin (October 6, 1916 - July 31, 1986) was an American mystery writer. ... Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park (born 3 August 1920 in Oxford) is a British writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords. ... Julian Gustave Symons (1912 - 1994) was a British writer, best known for crime fiction. ... Mary Higgins Clark (b December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels currently residing in New York City, New York. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Margaret Millar (* 1915 in Kitchener, Ontario, † 1994) was a US-Canadian Mystery and Suspense writer. ... Edward Dentinger Hoch (born February 22, 1930 in Rochester, New York) is a prolific American writer of detective fiction. ... John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), an English writer of espionage novels. ... Robert B. Parkers novel Cold Service Robert B. Parker (born September 17, 1932) is an acclaimed American writer of detective fiction. ... 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. ... Dorothy Salisbury Davis (born April 26, 1916) is a American crime fiction writer. ... Ira Levin (born August 27, 1929 in New York) is an American novelist, playwright and songwriter. ... James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. ... Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Lombino (October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005), was a prolific American author and screenwriter. ... Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. ... Mignon Good Eberhart (6 July 1899 - 1996) was an American author of mystery novels. ... Michael Francis Gilbert, born in 1912, is a British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers who writes as Michael Gilbert. ... John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986), writing as John D. MacDonald, was an American writer best known for his series of detective novels featuring protagonist Travis McGee. ... Phyllis Ayame Whitney (born September 9, 1903) is an American mystery writer. ... Hillary Baldwin Waugh, a pioneering American mystery novelist, was born in 1920 in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Helen McCloy (1904 - 1994), pseudonym Helen Clarkson, was an American mystery writer, whose series character Dr. Basil Willing debuted in Dance of Death (1938). ... Ross MacDonald (born January 24, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor. ... Tony Hillerman (born May 27, 1925) is an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works. ... Eric Ambler (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer of spy novels who brought a level of realism to the field that had generally been absent in earlier works. ... Elmore John Leonard Jr. ... Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was a great English playwright, novelist, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. ... 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. ...

See also

• The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time, selected by active MWA members in 1995
• Crime Writers' Association
• Edgar Award

The two Crime Companions The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the UK-based Crime Writers Association. ... The Crime Writers Association is a writers association in the UK. Founded by John Creasey in 1953, it is currently chaired by Robert Richardson and claims 450 members. ... The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ...

External link

• Mystery Writers of America