Edna Buchanan
Forfatter af Naked Came the Manatee
Om forfatteren
Edna Rydzik Buchanan was born in 1939 near Paterson, New Jersey. She attended creative writing classes at Montclair State Teacher's College. Buchanan was one of the first female crime reporters in Miami. Her police reporting for the Miami Herald won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1986. In 1979, Buchanan vis mere produced her first book, Carr: Five Years of Rape and Murder; From the Personal Account of Robert Frederick Car III. This nonfiction book recounts the story of a convicted rapist and murderer. In 1987, she published her memoirs, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. That book was followed in 1991 by Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami's Hottest Beat. Buchanan's crime novels include Nobody Lives Forever and Pulse. She is perhaps best known, however, for her mystery novels featuring a Cuban American crime reporter, Britt Montero. These titles include Contents Under Pressure; Miami, It's Murder; Suitable for Framing; Margin of Error, and Act of Betrayal. She has been a contributor to several magazines, including Fame, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone. Buchanan has received awards from the American Bar Association, National Newspaper Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Edna Buchanan
Contents Under Pressure (Avon Twilight Mystery) (1st in Britt Montero Mystery series) (1992) 296 eksemplarer
Mysteries by Female Authors: Margin of Error / The Dark Room / The Cereal Murders [Abridged Audio Book] (2002) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Suitable for Framing W/the Corpse Had a Familiar Face 4 eksemplarer
Mysteries by Female Authors: Margin of Error / Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer / The Cereal Murders [Abridged Audio… (2002) 2 eksemplarer
The innocent 1 eksemplar
Cold Case Squad by Edna Buchanan (2014-10-11) 1 eksemplar
Niemand lebt ewig. Psycho- Thriller. 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Mystery in the Sunshine State: Florida Short Stories by Florida's Mystery Writers (1999) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1939
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Paterson, New Jersey, USA
- Bopæl
- Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Miami, Florida, USA - Uddannelse
- Montclair State University
- Erhverv
- journalist
novelist - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Pulitzer Prize (General News Reporting, 1986)
David Brinkley Award (from Barry University, 1988)
Paul Hansell Award for Distinguished Journalism (Florida Society of Newspaper Editors)
American Bar Association Gavel Award
Miami Police Trailblazer Award
George Polk career award - Kort biografi
- Edna Buchanan, born in NJ, visited Miami in the 1960s and decided that's where she wanted to live. As a reporter, she covered Miami's police beat for 18 years. By her count, she reported more than 5,000 violent deaths, 3,000 of them murders, plus kidnappings, riots, fatal fires, major plane crashes and other disasters. She asks, what better background to write crime fiction?
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