Edgar Allan Poe, MWA logo

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is a professional organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.[1][2]

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.

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.)

In 2018, the Mystery Writers of America announced that it would honor best-selling author and former prosecutor Linda Fairstein with one of its Grand Master Awards for literary achievement. But two days after controversy erupted in connection with her alleged role in the Central Park jogger case, the organization withdrew the honor.[3]

YearRecipient(s)
1955Agatha Christie
1958Vincent Starrett
1959Rex Stout
1961Ellery Queen
1962Erle Stanley Gardner
1963John Dickson Carr
1964George Harmon Coxe
1966Georges Simenon
1967Baynard Kendrick
1969John Creasey
1970James M. Cain
1971Mignon G. Eberhart
1972John D. MacDonald
1973Judson Philips
Alfred Hitchcock
1974Ross Macdonald
1975Eric Ambler
1976Graham Greene
1978Daphne du Maurier
Dorothy B. Hughes
Ngaio Marsh
1979Aaron Marc Stein
1980W. R. Burnett
1981Stanley Ellin
1982Julian Symons
1983Margaret Millar
1984John le Carré
1985Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1986Ed McBain
1987Michael Gilbert
1988Phyllis A. Whitney
1989Hillary Waugh
1990Helen McCloy
1991Tony Hillerman
1992Elmore Leonard
1993Donald E. Westlake
1994Lawrence Block
1995Mickey Spillane
1996Dick Francis
1997Ruth Rendell
1998Elizabeth Peters
1999P. D. James
2000Mary Higgins Clark
2001Edward D. Hoch
2002Robert B. Parker
2003Ira Levin
2004Joseph Wambaugh
2005Marcia Muller
2006Stuart M. Kaminsky
2007Stephen King
2008Bill Pronzini
2009James Lee Burke
Sue Grafton
2010Dorothy Gilman
2011Sara Paretsky
2012Martha Grimes
2013Ken Follett
Margaret Maron
2014Carolyn Hart
Robert Crais
2015Lois Duncan
James Ellroy
2016Walter Mosley
2017Max Allan Collins
Ellen Hart
2018Jane Langton
William Link
Peter Lovesey
2019Martin Cruz Smith
2020Barbara Neely
2021Charlaine Harris
Jeffrey Deaver
2022Laurie R. King
2023Michael Connelly
Joanne Fluke

Raven Award

The Raven Awards are recorded in the Edgars Database of the Mystery Writers of America.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Contact the National Office of Mystery Writers of America". Retrieved 2013-04-21.
  2. ↑ "Mystery Writers of America | literary organization | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  3. ↑ Piccoli, Sean; Gold, Michael (November 28, 2018). "After Furor, Literary Group Withdraws Honor for 'Central Park Five' Prosecutor". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Raven Awards". Edgars Database. Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
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