Edna Buchanan
Autore di Naked Came the Manatee
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photograph by Jim Virga
Serie
Opere di Edna Buchanan
Contents Under Pressure (Avon Twilight Mystery) (1st in Britt Montero Mystery series) (1992) 298 copie
Opere correlate
Mystery in the Sunshine State: Florida Short Stories by Florida's Mystery Writers (1999) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1939
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Paterson, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Miami, Florida, USA - Istruzione
- Montclair State University
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
novelist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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 - Breve biografia
- 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?
Utenti
Recensioni
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami,… di Edna Buchanan
She covered the news for The Miami Herald.
A Buchanan "stand-alone" which I picked up a couple of years ago but not yet read, was one of the nicest surprises I've had in a long time . . . an off-beat mystery about a Witness Protection Agent who walks away from The US Marshalls Service Witness Protection Service (they actually fired him). What happens next will keep you turning pages. Buchanan Class A writing was, of course, there as always; her character drawing was prime, as always; and her story was supreme! Buchanan never misses a beat right through to the magnificent ending . . . don't cheat! You'll be very sorry you did. Enjoy. Great vacation read but it might interfere with travel plans as it will be hard to put down. (2011)… (altro)
reporter Britt Montero investigate serial rapist and unsolved child murder
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 34
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 3,702
- Popolarità
- #6,847
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 67
- ISBN
- 263
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 12
