2019 Edgar Awards Winners

On April 25 the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners for the 2019 Edgar Allen Poe Awards that honor the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television published or produced in 2018. The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday and the first Edgar Awards were handed out in 1946.

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Best Novel: Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
Best First Novel by an American Author: Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
Best Paperback Original: If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin
Best Fact Crime: Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
Best Critical/Biographical: Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger
Best Short Story: “English 398: Fiction Workshop” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Art Taylor
Best Juvenile: Otherwood by Pete Hautman
Best Young Adult: Sadie by Courtney Summers

See the complete list of the 2019 Edgar Awards nominees and winners, or search the database for past winners.