Mystery Writers of America

La Mystery Writers of America è una organizzazione statunitense di scrittori del genere giallo, horror e thriller. Venne fondata a New York il 26 marzo 1945 da Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat e Brett Halliday.

Ogni anno l'associazione assegna gli Edgar Award (piccoli busti raffiguranti Edgar Allan Poe), per diverse categorie: per il miglior romanzo, la miglior opera prima gialla, il miglior autore dell'anno, ecc.

Grand Master Award

• 1955: Agatha Christie
• 1958: Vincent Starrett
• 1959: Rex Stout
• 1961: Ellery Queen
• 1962: Erle Stanley Gardner
• 1963: John Dickson Carr
• 1964: George Harmon Coxe
• 1966: Georges Simenon
• 1967: Baynard Kendrick
• 1969: John Creasey
• 1970: James M. Cain
• 1971: Mignon G. Eberhart
• 1972: John D. MacDonald
• 1973: Judson Philips, Alfred Hitchcock
• 1974: Ross Macdonald
• 1975: Eric Ambler
• 1976: Graham Greene
• 1978: Dorothy Hughes, Ngaio Marsh, Daphne du Maurier
• 1979: Aaron Marc Stein

• 1980: W. R. Burnett
• 1981: Stanley Ellin
• 1982: Julian Symons
• 1983: Margaret Millar
• 1984: John le Carré
• 1985: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• 1986: Ed McBain
• 1987: Michael Gilbert
• 1988: Phyllis A. Whitney
• 1989: Hillary Waugh
• 1990: Helen McCloy
• 1991: Tony Hillerman
• 1992: Elmore Leonard
• 1993: Donald E. Westlake
• 1994: Lawrence Block
• 1995: Mickey Spillane
• 1996: Dick Francis
• 1997: Ruth Rendell
• 1998: Barbara Mertz
• 1999: P.D. James
• 2000: Mary Higgins Clark
• 2001: Edward D. Hoch

• 2002: Robert B. Parker
• 2003: Ira Levin
• 2004: Joseph Wambaugh
• 2005: Marcia Muller
• 2006: Stuart M. Kaminsky
• 2007: Stephen King
• 2008: Bill Pronzini
• 2009: James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton
• 2010: Dorothy Gilman
• 2011: Sara Paretsky
• 2012: Martha Grimes
• 2013: Ken Follett, Margaret Maron
• 2014: Carolyn Hart, Robert Crais
• 2015: Lois Duncan, James Ellroy
• 2016: Walter Mosley
• 2017: Max Allan Collins, Ellen Hart
• 2018: Jane Langton, William Link, Peter Lovesey
• 2019: Martin Cruz Smith
• 2020: Barbara Neely
• 2021: Jeffery Deaver, Charlaine Harris^[1]
• 2022: Laurie King^[2]
• 2023: Michael Connelly, Joanne Fluke^[3]
• 2024: Katherine Hall Page, R. L. Stine^[4]
• 2025: Laura Lippman, John Sandford^[5]