2021 Edgar Awards Nominations
Several authors and works of genre interest are on the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) 2021 Edgar Awards list of nominees.
Best Critical/Biographical
- Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock, Christina Lane (Chicago Review)
- Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery & Fiction, Erin E. MacDonald (McFarland)
Best Short Story
“Fearless”, Walter Mosley (California Schemin’)[Ineligible]
Best Juvenile
- Ikenga, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
- Nessie Quest, Melissa Savage (Crown)
Best Young Adult
- The Companion, Katie Alender (Putnam)
- The Inheritance Games, Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown)
- They Went Left, Monica Hesse (Little, Brown)
Best Television Episode Teleplay
- The Boys: “What I Know”
The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award
- Riviera Gold, Laurie R. King (Ballantine)
- Dead Land, Sara Paretsky (Morrow)
As previously reported, Jeffery Deaver and Charlaine Harris were named MWA Grand Masters.
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television,” will be presented April 29, 2021. For more information, including the full list of nominees, see their official website.
[Edited 1/27/2021 to remove Walter Mosley’s story, which was deemed ineligible for the award]
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