Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.
The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday.
It presents the Edgar Award, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, to writers every year. It also presents the Raven Award to non-writers who contribute to the mystery genre.
The Grand Master Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Mystery Writers of Americ...
more
Read article at Wikipedia
Mystery Writers of America
Organization
Sectors:
Award Presenting Organization
Awards presented:
Award categories presented:
- The Ellery Queen Award
- Edgar Grand Master Award
- Raven Award
- Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
- Edgar Award for Best Novel
- Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
- Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
- Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Similar topics in Freebase
-
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. The organization describes itself as "a national... -
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009. Its headquarters are in New York City. ACM is organized into over 170 local... -
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is an international secular non-governmental organisation which defines its mission as "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."... -
Campaign for Real Ale
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent, voluntary, consumer organisation based in St Albans, England, whose main aims are promoting real ale and the traditional British pub. It is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer... -
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York (commonly known as Columbia University) is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. It was founded in 1754... -
First Fandom
First Fandom is an association of experienced science fiction fans. In 1958 a number of fans at Midwestcon realized amid table-talk that they all had been active in fandom for more than 20 years. This inspired the creation of an organization for longstanding fans under the initial chairmanship of... -
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The league currently consists of... -
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, pronounced /ˈnæsə/) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National... -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality... -
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy is composed of over 6,000 motion picture professionals. While the great majority of its members are based in the...