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Hammett Prize
The Hammett Prize is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch (IACW/NA) to a Canadian or US citizen or permanent resident for a book in English in the field of crime writing. It is named after crime-writer Dashiell Hammett and was established in 1991. Past winners * 1991 - '' Maximum Bob'' by Elmore Leonard ( Delcorte) * 1992 - ''Turtle Moon'' by Alice Hoffman ( Putnam) * 1993 - ''The Mexican Tree Duck'' by James Crumley (Mysterious Press) * 1994 - ''Dixie City Jam'' by James Lee Burke (Hyperion) * 1994 - ''Under the Beetle's Cellar'' by Mary Willis Walker ( Doubleday) * 1996 - ''Rose'' by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House) * 1997 - ''Trial of Passion'' by William Deverell (McClelland & Stewart) * 1998 - ''Tidewater Blood'' by William Hoffman (Algonquin) * 1999 - ''Havana Bay'' by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House) * 2000 - ''The Blind Assassin'' by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday/McClelland & Stewart) * 2001 - ''Kingdom of Shadows'' by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Association Of Crime Writers
International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The Three Degrees album), 1975 *''International'', 2018 album by L'Algérino Songs * The Internationale, the left-wing anthem * "International" (Chase & Status song), 2014 * "International", by Adventures in Stereo from ''Monomania'', 2000 * "International", by Brass Construction from ''Renegades'', 1984 * "International", by Thomas Leer from ''The Scale of Ten'', 1985 * "International", by Kevin Michael from ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * "International", by McGuinness Flint from ''McGuinness Flint'', 1970 * "International", by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from '' Dazzle Ships'', 1983 * "International (Serious)", by Estelle from '' All of Me'', 2012 Politics * Political international, any transnational organization of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hoffman (author)
Henry William Hoffman (May 16, 1925 – September 12, 2009) was an American writer who published thirteen novels and four books of short stories and two plays. He was born in West Virginia but spent his formative years in southwestern Virginia. William Hoffman was the recipient of the 1992 John Dos Passos Prize. In 1996 he was awarded the O. Henry Prize, and in 1999 he received the Dashiell Hammett Award for the book ''Tidewater Blood.'' His short story "Dancer," published in '' The Sewanee Review'', won the 1989 Andrew Lytle Prize.''Sewanee Review'', Fall 1989, p. cxv. He wrote mysteries towards the end of his career. His first novel, ''The Trumpet Unblown'', reflected his horrific experiences as a medic in World War II. Novels * ''The Trumpet Unblown'' (1955) * ''Days in the Yellow Leaf'' (1958) * ''A Place for My Head'' (1960) * ''The Dark Mountains'' (1963) * ''Yancey's War'' (1966) * ''A Walk to the River'' (1970) * ''A Death of Dreams'' (1973) * ''The Land That Drank th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kanon
Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II. Early life In 1946, Kanon was born in Pennsylvania, U.S. Education Kanon studied at Harvard University, and at Trinity College in Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he published his first stories in ''The Atlantic Monthly''. Career Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. P. Dutton in New York. Kanon began his writing career in 1995. His first novel, ''Los Alamos'' (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Further novels followed, including ''The Prodigal Spy'', ''The Good German'' and ''Alibi''. His stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scribner Press
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton. The firm published ''Scribner's Magazine'' for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garnered Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards and other merits. In 1978 the company merged with Atheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies. In turn it merged into Macmillan in 1984. Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994. By this point only the trade book and reference book operations still bore the original family name. After the merger, the Macmillan and Atheneum adult lists were merged into Scribner's and the Scribner's children list was merged into Atheneum. The former imprint, now simp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Hogan
Charles Patrick Hogan is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known as the author of ''Prince of Thieves'', and as the co-author of ''The Strain'' trilogy with Guillermo del Toro. Alongside del Toro, Hogan created the television series ''The Strain'' (2014–2017), adapting their trilogy of vampire novels. Hogan also wrote the crime novels ''The Standoff'' (1995), ''The Blood Artists'' (1998), ''The Killing Moon'' (2007), and ''The Devils In Exiles'' (2010), and the screenplay for the war film '' 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'' (2016). ''Prince of Thieves'' (2004) was adapted into Ben Affleck's Academy Award-nominated film '' The Town'' (2010). The work won the 2005 Hammett Prize and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's original logo was a pair of mirrored letter Bs back to back, while its current logo is two Bs stacked to form an elaborate gate. The firm's early editors were Stanley Kauffmann and Bernard Shir-Cliff. History Following Fawcett Publications' controversial 1950 introduction of Gold Medal paperback originals rather than reprints, Lion Books, Avon and Ace also decided to publish originals. In 1952, Ian Ballantine, a founder of Bantam Books, announced that he would "offer trade publishers a plan for simultaneous publishing of original titles in two editions, a hardcover 'regular' edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, 'newsstand' size, low-priced edition for mass market sale." When the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Goodman
Carol Goodman, also known under the pseudonym Juliet Dark, is an American professor and author of gothic fiction. She has also written under the pseudonym Lee Carroll with her husband Lee Slonimsky. Goodman currently serves as a creative writing professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Bibliography *''The Lake of Dead Languages ''The Lake of Dead Languages'' is the 2002 mystery debut novel of writer Carol Goodman, who won the Hammett Prize for her 2004 book ''The Seduction of Water''. Synopsis Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls after the mysterious suicid ...'' (2002, Ballantine Books) *''The Seduction of Water'' (2003, Ballantine Books) *''The Drowning Tree'' (2004, Ballantine Books) *''The Ghost Orchid'' (2006, Ballantine Books) *''The Sonnet Lover'' (2007, Ballantine Books) *''The Night Villa'' (2008, Ballantine Books) *''Arcadia Falls'' (2010, Ballantine Books) *''River Road'' (2016, Touchstone) *''The Widow's House'' (2017, William Morro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Morrow & Co
William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981, and sold to News Corporation (now News Corp) in 1999. The company is now an imprint of HarperCollins. William Morrow has published many fiction and non-fiction authors, including Ray Bradbury, Michael Chabon, Beverly Cleary, Neil Gaiman, Erle Stanley Gardner, B. H. Liddell Hart, Elmore Leonard, Steven D. Levitt, Steven Pinker, Judith Rossner, and Neal Stephenson. Francis Thayer Hobson was president and later chairman of the board of William Morrow and Company. Morrow authors * Christopher Andersen * Harriet Brown * Karin Slaughter * Harry Browne * Stephen Brusatte * Meg Cabot * Beverly Cleary * Charles Dickinson * Warren Ellis * Bruce Feiler * Neil Gaiman * David J. Garrow * Nikki Giovanni * John Grogan * Andrew Gross * Jean Guerrero * Joe Hill * Ismail Kadare * Steven D. Levitt * Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Peters
Ralph Peters (born April 19, 1952) is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and author. In addition to his non-fiction books, he has published eight novels under the pen name Owen Parry of which ''Honor's Kingdom'' received the Hammett Prize. Three of his novels published as Ralph Peters received the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. Early life and education Peters is of German Lutheran descent on his father's side, and Welsh Methodist on his mother's. He was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Schuylkill Haven. His father was a coal miner and businessman. His wife, Katherine McIntire Peters, is the Deputy Editor of Government Executive Media Group, a division of Atlantic Media. Career Military Peters enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1976 after graduating from Pennsylvania State University. Peters' first assignment was in Germany. After returning from Germany, he attended Officer Candidate School and received a commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Furst
Alan Furst (; born 1941) is a Jewish-American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944. Biography Furst was born in New York City, and raised on the Upper West Side, Manhattan, Upper West Side of Manhattan. His family has ancestors in Poland, Latvia, and Russia. His great-grandfather was drafted into the Russian army, and, as a Jew, was required to serve 20 years. He attended the Horace Mann School, received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962, and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. While attending general studies courses at Columbia University, he became acquainted with Margaret Mead, for whom he later worked. Before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Shadows
''Kingdom of Shadows'' (2000) is a novel by Alan Furst. It won the 2001 Hammett Prize. Plot summary The story is set in Europe between April 1938 and July 1939, a time of ever-increasing fear and apprehension throughout the continent. ''Nicholas Morath'' is an expatriate An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their native country. In common usage, the term often refers to educated professionals, skilled workers, or artists taking positions outside their home country, either ... Hungarian in his forties and the co-owner of an advertising agency in Paris. His uncle, ''Count Janos Polanyi'', is a high-level functionary at the Hungarian embassy in France. Morath is in fact an amateur spy, sent on one dangerous mission after another at his uncle's behest (laundering money through the Antwerp diamond industry, or spending a week in a Romanian jail, for example). Polanyi tells his nephew little about the reasons for or the results of these exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Oates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
