• Stephen King will receive the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), placing him in a league with Ross Macdonald, Mickey Spillane, Elizabeth Peters, Ed McBain, Robert B. Parker, Marcia Muller, and this year’s recipient, Stuart M. Kaminsky. While it’s easy to think of King only as the author of horror fiction, MWA executive vice president Reed Farrel Coleman observes, “Stephen King is the natural successor to Edgar Allan Poe. King is that rare jack all trades who masters all he attempts. He is a fearless writer.” The author of the imminently published Lisey’s Story will be given his Grand Master Award during next year’s Edgar Awards banquet, to be held on Thursday, April 26, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
• Jess Walter, the Spokane, Washington, novelist who won an Edgar Allan Poe Award last year for his third novel, Citizen Vince, has been shortlisted for a National Book Award for his fourth and latest novel, The Zero (Judith Regan Books/HarperCollins). The National Book Foundation site describes The Zero as “a provocative novel that follows the life of hero cop Brian Remy in the surreal days following a devastating terrorist attack.” Also a finalist for this year’s NBA in the fiction category are: Mark Z. Danielewski, Only Revolutions (Pantheon); Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (Ecco); Richard Powers, The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); and Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document (Simon & Schuster). The winner in this category, as well as others, will announced on November 16.
• Joseph Wambaugh (Hollywood Station) will be given the prestigious Marlowe Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Southern California Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. The presentation is scheduled for November 3, during a ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Also to be honored that night is Barbara Seranella, who will receive this MWA chapter’s inaugural Dennis Lynds Memorial Award for Social Consciousness in Crime Fiction. (Hat tip to Dick Adler.)
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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