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Edna Buchanan

Edna Buchanan commanded the Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she reported the stories of 3,000 homicides and won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and the 2001 George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism. She attracted international acclaim for her classic true crime memoirs, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face and Never Let Them See You Cry. Her first novel of suspense, Nobody Lives Forever, was nominated for an Edgar Award. In 1992, Buchanan introduced Britt Montero, a Cuban-American reporter, in Contents Under Pressure. Montero's adventures in crime continued through nine novels; the most recent was Legally Dead,... Read full bio

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New York Times, December 26, 2009
...on the way: Henry Flagler. Al Capone. Meyer Lansky. Frank Sinatra. The Fontainebleau. Old Jews. The Cubans. “Scarface.” Edna Buchanan. Cocaine cowboys. More old Jews. More Cubans. Don Aronow. The Forge. Carlos Lehder. Crooked cops. Art Deco. More old...
Miami Herald, November 6, 2009
...with more novelists than Boston was Miami. I mean, that bitch is covered. You've got Hiaasen and Edna Buchanan and Elmore Leonard when he feels like popping in. Jim Hall, Les Standiford, both teachers of mine, Vicki Hendricks and the late Barbara Parker,...
Miami Herald, November 2, 2009
...with more novelists than Boston was Miami. I mean, that bitch is covered. You've got Hiaasen and Edna Buchanan and Elmore Leonard when he feels like popping in. Jim Hall, Les Standiford, both teachers of mine, Vicki Hendricks and the late Barbara Parker,...
My Mac.com, April 13, 2009
...covering the entire state. Their columnists and reporters were a who's who of star journalists and writers (Edna Buchanan, Carl Hiaasen, and Dave Barry, to name three). About five or six years ago, the Herald stopped the statewide distribution, and even...
The View from the Blue House, January 8, 2010
...3), G.M. Ford (3), Arthur Lyons (3), Ian Sansom (3), Mickey Spillane* (3), K.C. Constantine (3), Edna Buchanan (3), Dashiell Hammett* (2), Bill Ballinger (2), Peter Robinson (2), Jim Butcher (2), Roy Hart (2), Dominick Dunne (2), John Le Carre (2),...
The Fabulous Follies of a Freaky Family, January 2, 2010
...the ending. Of course, I knew about the guy but it was kind of obvious Contents Under Pressure Edna Buchanan Mar Good book, good characters, fast read Ice Maiden Edna Buchanan Apr Read out of order, already tired of her killing of characters Miami, It's...
Ruth Lee's Web Log, December 28, 2009
...Edna Buchanan, my all-time favorite Florida writer and Pulitzer prize winner dubbed the “Queen of Crime” by the Los Angeles Daily News, created a masterpiece of deception and continually action in...
EYE ON MIAMI, November 16, 2009
...of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and Sam Tanenhaus on The Death of Conservatism. I also saw Edna Buchanan, James Grippando and Heather Graham speak. I even bought a book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Chris Hedges. Also pictured Don and Nina...
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk, October 5, 2009
...from a lustrous group of brilliant Florida crime writers, including Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, Tim Dorsey, Paul Levine, Edna Buchanan, Evelyn Mayerson and John Dufresne – several of whom contributed to the hilarious chapter-by-chapter collaboration...
365 Days In the Moonshine Capitol of the World, June 13, 2009
...is a box of Tom Clancy, Elmore Leonard, Marian Babson, Richard North Patterson, James Lee Burke, Clive Cussler, Edna Buchanan, and of course, homeschool classics (just in time for stocking up for the coming school year, or summer reading). Next week will...