There’s Nothing Like Recognition

I’m not usually in the business of posting press releases (I hate it when other blogs do that--especially when they don’t identify them clearly as press releases). But today’s e-mail brings a release from editor, blogger, and radio host Elizabeth Foxwell to which I simply have nothing to add. So I shall quote most of it here:

Douglas G. Greene and Sisters in Crime received the George N. Dove Award from the Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association on April 5. The award was presented during the PCA/ACA’s
Annual Conference in Boston.

Greene, professor of history and former director of the Institute for Humanities at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, is the owner of Crippen & Landru, publisher of short story collections of both classic and contemporary mystery authors. He is also the author of the Edgar Award-nominated John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles (1995) on locked-room mystery master Carr. ...

Sisters in Crime received a special Dove Award to mark its 20th year in the support of female mystery writers, enhancing appreciation and study of their work in both academic and popular venues. ...

The Dove Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the serious study of mystery and crime fiction and is named for the late George N. Dove, a pioneer in mystery scholarship. Past recipients include distinguished author-critic H.R.F. Keating; the late John M. Reilly, editor of Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, and Margaret Kinsman and Elizabeth Foxwell, executive editor and managing editor respectively of the scholarly periodical Clues: A Journal of Detection).

The PCA’s Detective/Mystery Caucus is part of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, joint organizations that support the scholarly interpretation and critique of popular literature, film, TV, advertising, and other forms of popular culture. Many of the members of this large academic organization are teachers as well as scholars.

We now resume our regularly scheduled program of independent crime-fiction coverage ...