Annal:2002 Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional
- 2002 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
- 2002 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2001 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 22.52
Acclaimed mystery and science fiction writer G. Miki Hayden brings her experience and reverence for the craft to readers in this authoritative guide to creating a compelling and commercially viable mystery.
Writing the Mystery begins with a thorough exploration of the genre, and then proceeds to take the reader step-by-step through the writing process, starting with character and plot development, the nitty-gritty of word choice, grammar, and sentence structure, maintaining pace, revealing killers, and tying up loose ends. G. Miki then goes one step further in…
Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
- 2002 Anthony-Critical winner
- 2001 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- 2002 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 26.52
When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books published in sixteen languages around the world and often on bestseller lists. Or, for example, when his agent…
- 2002 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2002 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- 2002 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2001 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 24.52
Footprints, a smoking revolver, broken glass . . . Whodunit? Get to the bottom of things with Max Allan Collins, who puts the enigmatic, endlessly fascinating world of the mystery genre under the magnifying glass in The History of Mystery. Starting with Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional detective Dupin, Collins tracks the modern detective story from its birth in Allan Pinkerton’s Memoirs to its fullest flowering in the fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald. Collins widens his scope to explore the rich narrative and visual history of…
Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery
- 2002 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2002 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- 2002 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2001 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 24.52
Craig Rice, the author of fourteen novels, countless short stories, and a number of true crime pieces, once rivaled Agatha Christie in sales. She was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946. However, the past fifty years have seen her fall into relative obscurity. Rice made for an interesting subject for a biography because nearly every identification point about the author was in dispute: her birth, her real name, her number of marriages, number of children, her canon of fiction, and the cause of her early death. Marks had to wade through years of research to come…
