Edgar Award: Quick Facts

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Also Known As

Edgar Allan Poe Award

Notable Honorees

Stephen King • Roald Dahl • Viet Thanh Nguyen • Michael Connelly • John Green • Jason Reynolds • James Patterson • Robert Benton • Christopher Nolan • Tana French • Billy Bob Thornton • Errol Morris • Anthony Horowitz • Stephen Sondheim • John Sayles • David E. Kelley • Walter Mosley • Harlan Ellison • Michael Crichton • David Simon • James Bridges • Elmore Leonard • John le Carré • Ian Rankin • Matthew Weiner • Sara Paretsky • Gore Vidal • William Goldman • Patricia Cornwell • Rick Riordan • Gillian Flynn • Agatha Christie • Frederick Forsyth • Georges Simenon • Eric Ambler • Anthony Boucher • Charles Fuller • Ellis Peters • Joan Aiken • Timothy Findley • Phyllis Ayame Whitney • Erle Stanley Gardner • Tony Hillerman • Ruth Rendell • Mary Roberts Rinehart • Dick Francis • Ellery Queen • Raymond Chandler • Donald J. Sobol • Ernest Lehman • Maj Sjöwall • Robert Bloch • Ira Levin • Jack Webb • Peter Maas • Richard Matheson • Per Wahlöö • Anthony Perkins • Albert-Charles Simonin • Shirley Jackson • Steven Bochco • John Dickson Carr • Meyer Levin

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