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Cartier Diamond Dagger
The Cartier Diamond Dagger is an award given by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain to authors who have made an outstanding lifetime's contribution to the genre. The most recent winner is Andrew Taylor.
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Julian Symons
Julian Gustave Symons (1912 - 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.
Julian Symons was born in London. He was a younger brother, and later the biographer, of the...
Edith Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995) was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best...
Eric Ambler
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential English author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.
Ambler was born...
John le Carré
John le Carré (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, born 19 October 1931) is an English author of espionage novels, several of which have been adapted for film and television. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, before leaving the...
Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard, Jr. (born October 11, 1925) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, and Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, several of which have...
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, (born 17 February 1930), who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is a prolific English crime writer, acclaimed for her fine psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.
In addition...
Michael Gilbert
Michael Francis Gilbert, (July 17, 1912 – February 8, 2006), was a British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers who wrote as Michael Gilbert.
Gilbert was a lawyer in London for many years and at one point had Raymond Chandler as his...
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Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris (May 12 1907, Singapore– April 15 1993), born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Chinese, half English author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the...
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Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively....
Reginald Hill
Reginald Charles Hill (born 3 April 1936, West Hartlepool, County Durham) is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.
Hill was born to a "very...
Dick Francis
Dick Francis CBE (born Richard Stanley Francis on 31 October 1920) is a British horse racing crime writer and retired jockey.
Francis was born in Lawrenny, south Wales, in October 1920, the son of a jockey and stable manager. He left school at 15...
H. R. F. Keating
Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating (b. 31 October 1926) is an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.
Henry Raymond Fitzwalter Keating, known as Harry to his family and friends,...
Colin Dexter
Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels.
Dexter was educated at Stamford School, where his brother, John Dexter, had been before him and went on to...
Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter (October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005) was a prolific American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well-known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known...
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P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring her...
Margaret Yorke
Margaret Yorke (born 30 January 1924) is an English crime fiction writer, real name Margaret Beda Nicholson (née Larminie).
Born in Compton, Surrey, she spent her childhood in Dublin, moving to England in 1937. During World War II she worked as a...
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Peter Lovesey
Peter (Harmer) Lovesey (born 1936 in Whitton, Middlesex) is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and...
Lionel Davidson
Lionel Davidson (31 March 1922 – 21 October 2009) was an English novelist who wrote a number of acclaimed spy thrillers.
Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school early...
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Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is a modern American author of detective fiction.
Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on...
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Robert Barnard
Robert Barnard (born 23 November 1936) is an English crime writer, critic and lecturer.
Born in Essex, Barnard was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College in Oxford. His first crime novel, A Little Local Murder, was...
Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sue Grafton is the daughter of novelist C. W. Grafton and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of...
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin OBE, DL, (born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife) is a Scottish crime writer. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.
Rankin's standard biography states that before...
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John Harvey
John Harvey (born 21 December 1938 in London) is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham. Harvey has also published over 90 books under various names,...
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Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor (born 1951) is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Dougal series, the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and the historical novel The American Boy.
Andrew Taylor grew up in East Anglia. He was educated at...
