Publishers Lunch
The Edgar Awards were
announced Thursday evening, including several milestones:
Lori Roy, Best
Novel winner for Let
Me Die in His Footsteps (Dutton), is the first woman to win both this and
the Best First Novel category (and the third writer overall), while Pulitzer
winner Viet Thanh Nguyen also won Best First Novel for The
Sympathizer (Atlantic Monthly), the first author to win both awards
concurrently. Other winners included:
Best Paperback Original: The
Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
Best Short Story: "Obits" – The
Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Scribner)
Best Fact Crime: Whipping
Boy by Allen Kurzweil (Harper)
Best Critical/Biographical: The
Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (Harper360)
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