EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD RAVEN AWARD

2018:
Kristopher Zgorski, BOLO Books
The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence Kansas

2016:
Margaret Kinsman
Sisters in Crime

2015:
Ruth & Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine
Kathryn Kennison, Magna Cum Murder

2014: Aunt Agatha’s Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2013: Oline Cogdill

2012: M is for Mystery by Ed Kaufman
                 Meritorious Mysteries by Molly Weston

2011: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, Illinois
                Once Upon A Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2010: Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont, Pennsylvania
                 Zev Buffman, International Mystery Writers Festival
2009:  Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland
                   Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland
2008: Center for the Book, Library of Congress
                 Kate Mattes, owner of Kate’s Mystery Books
2007:   Mitchell Kaplan owner of Books & Books, Miami, Florida
                  Kathy & Tom Harig, owners of Mystery Loves Company Bookstore,  Oxford, Maryland
2006:  Black Orchid Bookshop Bonnie Claeson & Joe Guglielmelli, co-owners
Joan Hansen, The Raven Award Men of Mystery Conference creator
2005: Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre… Steve Oney
                 Diane Kovacs & Kara Robinson Co-Founders of DorothyL
                 Murder by the Book… Martha Farrington
2004: The Ray & Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, for their work collecting and preserving detective fiction.
                 Vanity Fair Magazine for their coverage of true crime, Graydon Carter, editor.
2003: Otto Penzler, owner of Mysterious Bookshop
                 Pat & Ed Thomas, owners of Book Carnival
                 Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia
2002:  Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
                 Anthony Mason & Douglas Smith, CBS’ Sunday Morning’s Fine Print
2001:  Barbara Peters… The Poisoned Pen  
                Tom & Enid Schantz…  The Rue Morgue 
2000:  Harold Augenbraum,  Director of The Mercantile Library
1999:  Steven Bochco
1998:  Sylvia K. Burack, Editor of The Writer Magazine
1997: Marvin Lachman
1996: Library of America for pulishing the writings of Raymond Chandler
1995: Dr. Paul LeClerc, President of New York Public Library
1993: President Bill Clinton, Reader of the Year
1992: Harold Q. Masur, General Counsel to Mystery Writers of America
1991: Carol Brener, Book Seller
                 Sarah Booth Conroy, Reader of the Year
1989: Bouchercon Annual World Mystery Convention
                Shear Madness, Marilyn Abrams & Bruce Jordan Cranberry Productions
1988: Angela Lansbury
                Vincent Price
1986: Suzi Oppenheimer, Reader of the Year
1985: Eudora Welty, Reader of the Year
1984: Sylvia Porter, Reader of the Year
1983: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Reader of the Year
1980: Muppet Murders, the Muppet Show
1979: Alberto Tedeschi, Publisher, Italian Series
1978: Danny Arnold, Producer of the Barney Miller Show
                Edwin Gorey, Designer of Dracula on Broadway’s Sets
                Richard N. Hughes, I Am My Brother’s Keeper
1976: Eddie Lawrence, Reader of the Year
                Leo Margolies, Editor of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
1975: ABC, World of Wide Mystery Series
                Royal Shakespeare Company
                Hy Brown Mysteries, a Nightly Show on Radio Mystery Theatre
1971: Judith Crist, Reader of the Year
1968: Joey Adams, Reader of the Year
1967: 26th Anniversary of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Richard Watts Jr., Reader of the Year
1965: Dr. Milton Helpern, Forensic Medicine
Philip Wittenberg, Service as Volunteer
1962: The Defenders, TV Show
1961: Ilka Chase, Reader of the Year
1960: Ray Brennan, Crime Reporter
                David C. Cook, Best Detective Stories of the Yer
                Alfred Hitchcock, Contributor to Mystery Genre
                Gail Jackson, Perry Mason Show Producer
                Phyllis McGinley, Mystery Fan of the Year
1959: Lawrence G. Blochman
                Frederic G. Melcher, Publisher Weekly, Retirement
                Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Reader of the Year
1957: Dorothy Kilgallen, Reader of the Year
1954: Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, New York City Medical Examiner, Retirement
                Tom Lehrer, Mystery Parodies
                Dr. Harrison Martland, Essex Country Medical Examiner, Retirement
1953: E.T. Guymon Jr, Mystery Literature Library