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Edna Buchanan (née Rydzik, born March 16, 1939) is an American journalist and writer who is best known for her crime mystery novels. She won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting "for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting."
Edna Buchanan’s eye-catching leads are a large part of what made her such an iconic journalist and later a successful novelist. But how did Edna Buchanan go from working as a police beat columnist to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer of crime books?
Complete order of Edna Buchanan books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
When it came to people killing people, Edna Buchanan had heard it all. Here she tells an interviewer how she covered the 1979 police killing of an African-American man. The verdict in the case caused deadly riots.
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- January 1, 1939
- Contents Under Pressure (Britt Montero, #1)
- Miami, It's Murder (Britt Montero, #2)
- The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat.
- You Only Die Twice.
Edna Buchanan has 49 books on Goodreads with 30378 ratings. Edna Buchanan’s most popular book is Contents Under Pressure (Britt Montero, #1).
Edna Buchanan worked The Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism.
