Mystery Writers of America







Edgar Allan Poe , MWA logo


Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.[1]


The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday.


It presents the Edgar Award, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, to mystery or crime writers every year. It presents the Raven Award to non-writers, who contribute to the mystery genre. The category of Best Juvenile Mystery is also part of the Edgar Award, with such notable recipients as Barbara Brooks Wallace having won the honor twice, for The Twin in the Tavern in 1994 and Sparrows in the Scullery in 1998, and Tony Abbott for his novel The Postcard, which received critical accolades in 2009.




Contents






  • 1 Grand Master Award


  • 2 Raven Award


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





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 up to 1978; from 1979 to 2008, it was given to one writer each year. Since 2009, as many as three authors have been honored annually.)













































































































































































Year Recipient(s) Year Recipient(s) Year Recipient(s) Year Recipient(s)
1955 Agatha Christie 1978
Daphne du Maurier
Dorothy B. Hughes
Ngaio Marsh
 1994 Lawrence Block 2011
Sara Paretsky
1958 Vincent Starrett 1995 Mickey Spillane 2012
Martha Grimes
1959 Rex Stout 1996 Dick Francis 2013
Ken Follett
Margaret Maron
1961 Ellery Queen 1979 Aaron Marc Stein 1997
Ruth Rendell
1962 Erle Stanley Gardner 1980 W. R. Burnett 1998 Elizabeth Peters 2014[2]
Carolyn Hart
Robert Crais
1963 John Dickson Carr 1981 Stanley Ellin 1999
P. D. James
1964 George Harmon Coxe 1982 Julian Symons 2000 Mary Higgins Clark 2015
Lois Duncan
James Ellroy
1966 Georges Simenon 1983 Margaret Millar 2001
Edward D. Hoch
1967 Baynard Kendrick 1984 John le Carré 2002 Robert B. Parker 2016
Walter Mosley
1969 John Creasey 1985 Dorothy Salisbury Davis 2003 Ira Levin 2017
Max Allan Collins
Ellen Hart
1970 James M. Cain 1986 Ed McBain 2004
Joseph Wambaugh
1971 Mignon G. Eberhart 1987 Michael Gilbert 2005 Marcia Muller 2018
Jane Langton
William Link
Peter Lovesey
1972 John D. MacDonald 1988 Phyllis A. Whitney 2006
Stuart M. Kaminsky
1973
Judson Philips
Alfred Hitchcock
 1989 Hillary Waugh 2007
Stephen King
1990 Helen McCloy 2008 Bill Pronzini
1974 Ross Macdonald 1991 Tony Hillerman 2009
James Lee Burke
Sue Grafton
1975 Eric Ambler 1992 Elmore Leonard
1976 Graham Greene 1993 Donald E. Westlake 2010 Dorothy Gilman


Raven Award


The Raven Awards are recorded in the Edgars Database of the Mystery Writers of America.
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Year
 Recipient
 Notes
1953
 E.T. Guymon Jr.
 "For his outstanding library of mystery literature"
1954
Harrison Stanford Martland
 Retiring medical examiner, Essex County, New Jersey
1954
Tom Lehrer
 "For his mystery parodies"
1954
 Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales
 Retiring medical examiner, New York City
1957
Dorothy Kilgallen
 Reader of the Year
1959
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 Reader of the Year, accepted by Eleanor Roosevelt
1959
Frederic G. Melcher
 On his retirement after 35 years with Publishers Weekly
1959
Lawrence G. Blochman
 "For long and distinguished service"
1960
Phyllis McGinley
 Mystery Fan of the Year
1960
Gail Patrick Jackson
 Executive producer, Perry Mason
1960
Alfred Hitchcock
 "For his contributions to the mystery genre"
1960
 David C. Cook
 Best Detective Stories of the Year
1960
 Ray Brennan
 "For crime reporting"
1961
Ilka Chase
 Reader of the Year
1962
The Defenders
 TV series
1965
 Philip Wittenberg
 "For his long years of voluntary service"
1965
 Dr. Milton Helpern
 "For his work in forensic medicine"
1967
Richard Watts, Jr.
 Reader of the Year
1967
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
 "On its 26th anniversary and as the best showcase for mystery stories"
1968
Joey Adams
 Reader of the Year
1971
Judith Crist
 Reader of the Year
1975
CBS Radio Mystery Theater
 Produced by Himan Brown
1975
Royal Shakespeare Company
 Revival production
1975
Wide World Mystery
 ABC-TV
1976
 Leo Margolies
 Editor, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
1976
Eddie Lawrence
 Reader of the Year
1978
Richard N. Hughes
 "I Am My Brother's Keeper"
1978
Edward Gorey
 For the sets he designed for Dracula on Broadway
1978
Danny Arnold
 Executive producer, Barney Miller
1979
 Alberto Tedeschi
 Publisher of the Mondadori mysteries
1980
The Muppet Show
 Episode, "Muppet Murders"[4]
1983
Isaac Bashevis Singer
 Reader of the Year
1983
Sylvia Porter
 Reader of the Year
1985
Eudora Welty
 Reader of the Year
1986
Suzi Oppenheimer
 Reader of the Year
1988
Vincent Price
1988
Angela Lansbury
1989
Shear Madness
 Longest running off-Broadway play
1989
Bouchercon
 Annual World Mystery Convention
1991
 Sarah Booth Conroy
 Reader of the Year
1991
 Carol Brener
 "For her skill in selling books to the public"
1992
Harold Q. Masur
 "For his years of service to MWA as general counsel"
1993
Bill Clinton
 Reader of the Year
1995
Paul LeClerc
 President, New York Public Library
1996
Library of America
 "For their publication of the collected writings of Raymond Chandler"
1997
 Marvin Lachman
1998
 Sylvia K. Burack
 Editor, The Writer magazine
1999
Steven Bochco
2000
Harold Augenbraum
 Director, The Mercantile Library
2001
 Enid Schantz, Tom Schantz
 The Rue Morgue Press
2002
Barbara G. Peters
 The Poisoned Pen mystery bookstore
2002
Anthony Mason, Douglas Smith
 Correspondent and producer of "The Fine Print", CBS Sunday Morning profiles of mystery writers[5]
2002
Charles Champlin
 Book critic, Los Angeles Times
2003
Edgar Allan Poe Museum
 Richmond, Virginia
2003
 Pat Thomas, Ed Thomas
 Book Carnival mystery bookstore, Orange, California[6]
2003
Otto Penzler
 The Mysterious Bookshop
2004
Graydon Carter and Vanity Fair
 "In recognition of their coverage of true crime"
2004
Bowling Green State University
 Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies,"in recognition of its long-standing work in collecting and preserving detective fiction"
2005
 Martha Farrington
 Murder by the Book bookstore, Houston, Texas
2005
 Diane Kovacs, Kara Robinson
 Founders, DorothyL listserv
2005
 Steve Oney
 Founder, Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre
2006
 Joan Hansen
 Creator, Men of Mystery Conference
2006
 Bonnie Claeson, Joe Guglielmelli
 Black Orchid Bookshop
2007
 Kathy Harig, Tom Harig
 Mystery Loves Company Bookstore
2007
 Mitchell Kaplan
 Books & Books
2008
Center for the Book
Library of Congress
2009
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum
 Baltimore, Maryland
2009
Edgar Allan Poe Society
 Baltimore, Maryland
2010
 Richard Goldman, Mary Alice Gorman
 Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont, Pennsylvania[7]
2010
Zev Buffman
 International Mystery Writers Festival
2011
 Pat Frovarp, Gary Shulze
 Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota[8]
2011
 Augie Aleksy
 Centuries and Sleuths Bookstore
2012
 Molly Weston
 Meritorious Mysteries
2012
 Ed Kaufman
 M is for Mystery
2013
 Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
 San Diego, California
2013
 Oline Cogdill
 Mystery fiction columnist and critic[9]
2014
 Aunt Agatha's Bookstore
 Ann Arbor, Michigan
2015
 Kathryn Kennison
 Magna Cum Murder
2015
 Ruth and Jon Jordan
Crimespree magazine
2016
 Margaret Kinsman
 mentor, teacher, scholar, Executive Editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection
2016
Sisters in Crime
 organization of women crime writers
2017
 Dru Ann Love
 writer and editor of the blog Dru's Book Musings


See also




  • The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time, selected by active MWA members in 1995

  • Crime Writers' Association

  • Crime Writers of Canada

  • Mystery Writers of Japan

  • Swedish Crime Writers' Academy



References





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  2. ^ "Robert crais and Carolyn Hart chosen as the 2014 Grand Masters by Mystery Writers of America". Retrieved 2014-01-15.


  3. ^ "The Raven Awards". Edgars Database. Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved 2015-07-11.


  4. ^ "The Muppet Show: Season 4, Episode 14 – Liza Minnelli". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2015-07-11.


  5. ^ Starr, Michael (April 24, 2002). "Starr Report". New York Post.


  6. ^ Takahama, Valerie (October 7, 2004). "Partners in Crime". Orange County Register.


  7. ^ Wilberding, Beth (December 10, 2009). "Buffman receives national mystery award". Messenger-Inquirer. Owensboro, Kentucky.


  8. ^ Hertzel, Laurie (April 16, 2011). "Crime Pays for Bookstore". Star Tribune.


  9. ^ "Contributors". Mystery Scene. Retrieved 2015-07-11.




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