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Edna Buchanan
Fast Facts:
- 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.
Source:
COLD CASE SQUAD by Edna Buchanan (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE by Edna Buchanan (Pocket Books, 2004; Random House, 1987)
NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU CRY by Edna Buchanan (Random House, 1992)
Ednabuchanan.com
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