Edna Buchanan

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• Edna Buchanan's first reporting job was working at the Miami Beach Daily Sun.
  
  
• Edna Buchanan won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting. She also won the George Polk Career Award.
  
  
• During her tenure as police reporter for The Miami Herald, Edna Buchanan reported over 5,000 violent deaths.
  
  
• Edna Buchanan's life was dramatized in two made-for-television movies starring Elizabeth Montgomery: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1994) and Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995). Deadline for Murder was Montgomery's final role.
  
  
• Buchanan's first book, the nonfiction title CARR: Five Years of Rape and Murder, was published in 1979.
  
  
• Buchanan's nonfiction book THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE was dedicated to Buchanan's seventh grade English teacher.
  
  
• Published in 1990, Edna Buchanan's first novel, NOBODY LIVES FOREVER, did not feature her popular protagonist Britt Montero. Britt made her first appearance in Buchanan's second novel, CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE.
  
  
• COLD CASE SQUAD, Edna Buchanan's most recent novel, features characters from her 2001 Britt Montero novel THE ICE MAIDEN.
  
  
• Edna Buchanan's fiction has been twice-nominated for the Edgar Award.
  
  
• Edna Buchanan's books have been translated into 11 languages.
  
  

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