Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime, established in 1948, is presented to nonfiction hardcover, paperback, or electronic books about mystery.[1] The category includes both true crime books, as well as books "detailing how to solve actual crimes."[1]
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime winners are listed below.
Recipients[edit]
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1990s[edit]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Jack Olsen | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell | Winner | [2] |
| 1991 | Peter Maas | In a Child's Name | Winner | [2] |
| 1992 | David Simon | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets | Winner | [2] |
| 1993 | Harry Farrell | Swift Justice | Winner | [2] |
| 1994 | Bella Stumbo | Until the Twelfth of Never | Winner | [2] |
| 1995 | Joe Domanick | To Protect and to Serve | Winner | [2] |
| 1996 | Pete Earley | Circumstantial Evidence | Winner | [2] |
| 1997 | Darcy O'Brien | Power to Hurt | Winner | [2] |
| 1998 | Carlton Stowers | To the Last Breath | Winner | [2] |
| 1999 | Richard Firstman | The Death of Innocents | Winner | [2] |
2000s[edit]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Edward Dolnick | Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice | Winner | |
| Suzanne O'Malley | Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates | Shortlist | ||
| Julian Rubinstein | Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts | Shortlist | ||
| D.P. Lyle | Forensics for Dummies | Shortlist | ||
| Ann Rule | Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer | Shortlist | ||
| Marissa N. Batt | Ready for the People: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Edward Dolnick | Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece | Winner | |
| Jed Horne | Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans | Shortlist | ||
| John Emsley | The Elements of Murder: The History of Poison | Shortlist | ||
| Michael Finkel | True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa | Shortlist | ||
| Diane Fanning | Written in Blood | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | James L. Swanson | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer | Winner | [3] |
| Sebastian Junger | A Death in Belmont | Shortlist | ||
| Kate Clark Flora | Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine | Shortlist | ||
| Robin Odell | Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer | Shortlist | ||
| Terri Jentz | Strange Piece of Paradise | Shortlist | ||
| Daniel Stashower | The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Vincent Bugliosi | The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy | Winner | [4] |
| Kevin Flynn | Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit | Shortlist | ||
| Bruce Watson | Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind | Shortlist | ||
| Stanley Alpert | The Birthday Party | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Howard Blum | American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century | Winner | [5] |
| Simon Baatz | For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago | Shortlist | ||
| T.J. English | Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution | Shortlist | ||
| Jonathan Lopez | The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren | Shortlist | ||
| Kate Summerscale | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher | Shortlist |
2010s[edit]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dave Cullen | Columbine | Winner | |
| Jeff Guinn | Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde | Shortlist | ||
| Laney Salisbury | Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art | Shortlist | ||
| Dick Lehr | The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Bostons Racial Divide | Shortlist | ||
| R. A. Scotti | Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Candice Millard | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity | Winner | |
| Scott Higham | Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery | Shortlist | ||
| Hampton Sides | Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin | Shortlist | ||
| Alex Heard | The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South | Shortlist | ||
| Douglas Starr | The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Candice Millard | Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President | Winner | [6][7] |
| Paul Collins | The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars | Shortlist | [8] | |
| T. J. English | The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge | Shortlist | [8] | |
| Steve Miller | Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender | Shortlist | [8] | |
| Mark Seal | The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter | Shortlist | [8] | |
| 2013 | Paul French | Midnight in Peking | Winner | [9] |
| Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Shortlist | ||
| Ben Macintyre | Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies | Shortlist | ||
| P. D. Lyle | More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered | Shortlist | ||
| Richard Lloyd Parry | The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Daniel Stashower | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | Winner | [10] |
| Paul Collins | Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery | Shortlist | [11] | |
| Michael D’Antonio | Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal | Shortlist | [11] | |
| Charles Graeber | The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder | Shortlist | [11] | |
| Cate Lineberry | The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines | Shortlist | [11] | |
| 2015 | William J. Mann | Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood | Winner | [12][13] |
| Kevin Cook | Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America | Shortlist | [12] | |
| Carl Hoffman | The Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | Shortlist | [12] | |
| Lacy M. Johnson | The Other Side: A Memoir | Shortlist | [12] | |
| Harold Schechter | The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation | Shortlist | [12] | |
| 2016 | Allen Kurzweil | Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully | Winner | [14][15] |
| Eric Bogosian | Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide | Shortlist | ||
| T. J. English | Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him | Shortlist | ||
| Val McDermid | Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime | Shortlist | ||
| John Temple | American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Kate Summerscale | The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer | Winner | [16] |
| Vincent diMaio | Morgue: A Life in Death | Shortlist | ||
| Laurence Leamer | The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan | Shortlist | ||
| Paul Thomas Murphy | Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England | Shortlist | ||
| Eli Sanders | While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | David Grann | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | Winner | [17] |
| Jeff Guinn | The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple | Shortlist | ||
| Monica Hesse | American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land | Shortlist | ||
| Bill James | The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery | Shortlist | ||
| Brad Ricca | Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Robert W. Fieseler | Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | Winner | [18] |
| Jonathan Green | Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal | Shortlist | ||
| Carl Hoffman | The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure | Shortlist | ||
| Kirk Wallace Johnson | The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century | Shortlist | ||
| Michelle McNamara | I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer | Shortlist | ||
| Alex Perry | The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia | Shortlist |
2020s[edit]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Axton Betz-Hamilton | The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity | Winner | [19][20] |
| Karen Abbott | The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America | Shortlist | ||
| Maureen Callahan | American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century | Shortlist | ||
| Peter Houlahan | Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History | Shortlist | ||
| James Polchin | Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Eric Eyre | Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic | Winner | [21][22] |
| Mark A. Bradley | Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America | Shortlist | [22] | |
| Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | Shortlist | [22] | |
| Sierra Crane Murdoch | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Shortlist | [22] | |
| Ariel Sabar | Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife | Shortlist | [22] | |
| 2022 | Elon Green | Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York | Winner | [23] |
| Margalit Fox | The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History | Shortlist | ||
| Ann Hagedorn | Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away | Shortlist | ||
| Ellen McGarrahan | Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice | Shortlist | ||
| Benjamin T Smith | The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade | Shortlist | ||
| Curtis Wilkie | When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Erika Krouse | Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation | Winner | [24] |
| Kathleen Hale | Slenderman | Shortlist | [25] | |
| Kathryn Miles | Trailed | Shortlist | [25] | |
| Shahan Mufti | American Caliph | Shortlist | [25] | |
| Daniel Stashower | American Demon | Shortlist | [25] |
References[edit]
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