Edgar Allan Poe Award Special Edgars

2005: Winners:  David Chase….Writer & Producer of such shows as The Sopranos, The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, ETC.
                                            Tom Fontana….Writer & Producer of such shows as Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, The Jury, ETC.
2004:  Home Box Office (HBO)
2003:  Dick Wolfe
2002:  Blake Edwards
2001:  Mildred Wirt Benson aka the original Carolyn Keene, author of the Nancy Drew Mystery Series
1991: The Encyclopedia of World Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement by Jay Robert Nash
1989: Joan Kahn, Publisher of Mystery, Retiring after 50 Years
1986: Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International Bibliography of Secondary Sources by Walter Albert
1985: The Silent Shame by Mark Nykaned, Television Show Re: Child Abuse crimes
1984: A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle by John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green
1983: The Case of Dashiell Hammett by Stephen Talbot, a PBS Show
1982: The Young Detective’s Handbook by William Vivian Butler, an HBO Show
1981: Lawrence Spivak, Founding Publisher, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
               Mystery!, PBS Show, Joan Wilson
               The Edge of Night, Television Series, 25th Year
1980: Chester Gould, Creator of Dick Tracy
               The Bibliography of Crimie Fiction, 1749 – 1975 by Allen J. Hubin
               The Murderers’ Who’s Who by J.H.H. Gaute & Robin Odell
1979: Frederic Dannay, Author for 50 Years
                Mignon C. Eberhart, Author for 50 Years
                Richard Levinson & William Link, Columbo and Ellery Queen TV Series
1978: Allen J. Hubin, Editor of The Armchair Detective
                Murder Ink by Dilys Winn
                Mystery Writer’s Handbook, Lawrence Treat, Editor
1976: Jorge Luis Borges, Contributor to Mystery Genre
                Donald J. Sobol, Juvenile Mystery Author of the Encyclopedia Brown Books
1975: Howard Haycraft, Contributor to Mystery Genre
                Royal Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
1974: The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
1973: Mortal Consequences: A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons
                Murder on the Menu by Jeanine Larmoth & Charlotte Turgeon
1972: A Catalogue of Crime by Jacques Barzun & Wendell Taylor
1970: John Dickson Carr, Mystery Author for over 40 years
1969: Ellery Queen
                Philip Wittenberg, Mystery Writers of America General Counsel
1967: Julius Fast
                Clayton Rawson
1966: The Gospel According to 007 by Reverend O.C. Edwards
1964: Down These Mean Streets by Philip Durham
1963: Companion to Murder by E. Spencer Shew
                Cops and Robbers by Philip Reisman
                The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow by Patrick Quentin
1962: The Annals of Murder by Thomas M. McDade
1961: Charles Addams, Cartooinst
                Elizabeth Daly
                Philip Wittenberg, Lawyer
1959: American Murder Ballads by Alice Wooley Burt
1957: Compulsion by Meyer Levin
1954: The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1952: Queen Quorum: The 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories by Frederic Dannay & Manfred B. Lee
1951: W.T. Brannon, Author of Fact/Crime
                Franklin Heller, Producer & Director of TV Show The Web
1950: Ellery Queen, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
               The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by John Dickson Carr
1949: Clayton Rawson, Clue Magazine
                Marie Rodell, Editor of Regional Murder Series
                Arthur A. Stoughton, President of Bronx Society of Arts & Sciences and Cottage of Fordham’s Custodian
                 Peter W. Williams, Creator of the Edgar Bust