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Edgar Allan Poe Award For Best Novel
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel was established in 1954. Only hardcover novels written by a published American author are eligible. Paperback original novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. Debut novels by American novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. Winners for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel are listed below. Recipients 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel Lists of writers by award Mystery and detective fiction awards Edgar Allan Poe Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ... English-language literary awards 1954 awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Allan Poe Award For Best Paperback Original
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback or eBook Original was established in 1970. The award honors the best mystery book that is initially printed as a paperback or eBook without a hardcover edition. EBooks must be published by a reputable publisher, as determined by the Mystery Writers of America. American authors' debut novels are not eligible for the award, though they are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original winners are listed below. Winners 1970-1999 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Edgar Award * Mystery Writers of America Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. It presents the Edgar Awa ... * :Edgar Award winners * :Edgar Award winning works References {{DEFAULTSORT:Edgar Allan Poe Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1960. – Mervyn Griffith-Jones prosecuting in the ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' case Events *February–October – ''Astounding'' magazine is renamed ''Analog''. *Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, ''Hawk and Whippoorwill'' in the United States. *March 22 – Joan Henry's play '' Look on Tempests'' is premièred at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, as the first play dealing openly with homosexuality to be passed for performance by the Lord Chamberlain in Britain. *April 27 – Harold Pinter's play ''The Caretaker'' is premièred at the Arts Theatre Club in London's West End, transferring to the Duchess Theatre the following month, where it runs for 444 performances before departing from London for Broadway, Pinter's first significant commercial success. Alan Bates and Donald Pleasence star in the original production. *July 11 – Harper Lee's Southern Gothic ''Bildungsr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Of The Generals (novel)
''The Night of the Generals: A Novel'' (german: Die Nacht der Generale) is a thriller novel by German writer Hans Hellmut Kirst, published in 1962. Plot In German-occupied Poland in 1940 in Warsaw, a prostitute is murdered in a very bestial way. Since the Polish police discover that she is on a list of German intelligence agents, they have to summon the German military police. From the lavatory by the staircase an old man has seen the leg of the suspected killer, and states that it was most likely some kind of uniform which the killer wore that he never had seen before, adding that the trousers had a red stripe down the side. The gathered crowd of German soldiers get angry: "He is accusing a German General!"; but their captain (''Hauptmann'') stops them, and asks "Why would this man lie to us?". It has become clear for the military police captain that this very repulsive murder has been committed by a general of the Wehrmacht, and despite all the evil of the Nazi regime behind t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1964. Events *January 10 – Federico García Lorca's play ''The House of Bernarda Alba'', completed just before his assassination in 1936, receives its first performance in Spain. *January 12 – The Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group open a four-week Theatre of Cruelty season at the LAMDA Theatre Club, London. *January 23 – Arthur Miller's play '' After the Fall'' opens at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre Off-Broadway in New York City, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards and Kazan's wife Barbara Loden. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over Miller's portrayal of his late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe. *February 11 – A London retailer, in the case of R. v. Gold, is found guilty under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 of stocking a 1963 edition of John Cleland's novel ''Fanny Hill'' (''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', 1748–1749). *February 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Light Of Day (Eric Ambler Novel)
''The Light of Day'' is a 1962 novel by Eric Ambler. Plot Arthur Abdel Simpson, the narrator, is an amoral taxi-driver and petty-criminal in Athens, who gets his living mostly by ripping off tourists. One of his targets, a man named Harper, catches him, and blackmails him into driving a car across the border from Greece into Turkey. The Turkish authorities find that the car is loaded with concealed illegal weapons, and Simpson faces the terrifying prospect of a long term in a Turkish prison. However, the authorities offer him a chance to earn leniency: he must deliver the weapons according to Harper's instructions, and then somehow ingratiate himself with Harper's gang, learn their goals and plans, and report regularly to the government's agents. The government suspects an attempt at terrorism or insurgency, but it turns out that Harper and his gang actually have an audacious plan to steal valuable gems from the treasury museum of the Topkapı Palace. While preparing for the rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1963. Events *January – ''Novy Mir'' publishes "Matryona's Home", the first of three more stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn critical of the Soviet regime. They will be the last of his works to be published in the Soviet Union until 1990. *January 2 – The Traverse Theatre opens in Edinburgh. *February – English novelist Barbara Pym submits her seventh book, '' An Unsuitable Attachment'', for publication. It is rejected by Tom Maschler at her regular publisher, Jonathan Cape, and by others. She will not have another novel published until 1977 and ''An Unsuitable Attachment'' does not appear until 1982, posthumously. *February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat about a month after her only novel, the semi-autobiographical ''The Bell Jar'', appears and six days after writing her last poem, "Edge". *March – The Publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Zebra-Striped Hearse
''The Zebra-Striped Hearse'' is a detective mystery written in 1962 by American author Ross Macdonald, the tenth book featuring his private eye, Lew Archer. The Coen Brothers wrote an as-yet-unproduced screenplay based on the novel for Joel Silver. Plot Colonel and Mrs. Blackwell hire Archer to investigate their prospective son-in-law, an artist named Burke Damis. Blackwell believes Damis is marrying their daughter Harriet only for her money. Archer takes the case, warning the Blackwells that they must be prepared to accept whatever information he uncovers, good or bad. Soon after beginning his investigation, he finds Blackwell threatening Damis with a gun. Damis and Harriet leave the house and vanish. From there, the search for the runaways takes Archer to San Francisco, Mexico, Nevada, and back to California, finding dead bodies linked to Damis along the way. Archer repeatedly encounters a group of surfers driving around in a zebra striped hearse, which gives the book its title. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death And The Joyful Woman
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death is an inevitable process that eventually occurs in almost all organisms. Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the similar process seen in individual components of an organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered an organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said to die. As of the early 21st century, over 150,000 humans die each day, with ageing being by far the most common cause of death. Many cultures and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also may hold the idea of judgement of good and bad deeds in one's life ( h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1962. Events * January 7 – In an article in ''The New York Times Book Review'', Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist". * February 17 – Arthur Miller marries the photographer Inge Morath. * February 28 – F. R. Leavis delivers the Richmond lecture ''Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow'' at Downing College, Cambridge, which arouses controversy. * May 11 – The Finnish Ministry of Education forbids the import and distribution of eight children's books (including ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), published by Kynäbaari, because of the poor quality and clandestine abridgement of the translations. *May – Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books in London. *June 5 – Marvel Comics publishes ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15, featuring the debut of its '' Spider-Man'' feature by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. ''The Amazing Spider-Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wycherly Woman
The Wycherly Woman is a detective novel by Ross Macdonald. The ninth to feature Lew Archer, it was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961. Earlier that year a condensed version had appeared in ''Cosmopolitan'' under the title "Take My Daughter Home". The novel was nominated for the 1962 Edgar Awards, and earlier included in Anthony Boucher’s best crime fiction list of 1961. While some translations of the title were faithful to the original, others contained glosses of the plot, which turns on the hunt for and confusion in identifying a mother and daughter. Titles included ''Die wahre Mrs. Wycherly'' (The True Mrs Wycherly, German 1964); ''Mutter und Tochter'' (Mother and Daughter), German e-book, 2018; ''Så levende så død'' (So living, so dead), Danish 1966; ''Honba za Phoebe'' (The Hunt for Phoebe), Czech 1972; ''Rikas tyttöparka'' (Rich girl on the lam), Finnish 1990; 위철리 여자 (Smart Woman), Korean 1992. Plot Archer is summoned to the Meadow Farms mansion of Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Of Wenceslas
''The Night of Wenceslas'' is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson. This Bildungsroman describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English and Czech parentage who finds himself caught up against his will in Cold War espionage. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award in 1960 and the Author's Club First Novel Award. It was filmed in 1964 under the title ''Hot Enough for June''. Plot summary Nicolas is a 24-year-old Londoner, a witty wastrel and the novel's archetypal anti-hero. He hates his job in his late father's glass-making business, where he works under the odious Nimek in anticipation of making full partner one day. He dreams of inheriting untold riches from his Uncle Bela in Vancouver, which will put an end to his current servitude. His bossy Irish girlfriend Maura continually presses him to make something of himself. His one true love is his car, an MG, which he bought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
