Chicago author Sara Paretsky, creator of the best-selling V.I. Warshawski private-eye series, has been chosen to receive the 2023 David Thompson Special Service Award. Named in honor of Texas bookseller-publisher David Thompson, who died in 2010, this commendation is presented annually by Bouchercon’s board of directors in recognition of “extraordinary efforts to develop and promote the mystery and crime fiction field.”
A news release says that Paretsky is being honored for her “phenomenal” contributions “as a founder of Sisters In Crime; as a leader in helping to lay the publishing groundwork for women authors of mystery and crime fiction; and as an ongoing literacy activist …”
She’ll be presented with her award during the General Members Meeting at this year’s Bouchercon, which is to be held in San Diego, California, from August 30 to September 3.
Previous winners of this special service accolade include The Rap Sheet’s own British correspondent, Ali Karim, Bouchercon participants Bill and Toby Gottfried, editor and bookseller Otto Penzler, Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine editor George Easter, reviewer and blogger Lesa Holstine, and editor-blogger Janet Rudolph.
Friday, May 26, 2023
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