Edna Buchanan is an American

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 journalist

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 and author

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 best known for her crime mystery novels.

She was born in Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson, New Jersey

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 and attended Montclair State College

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. As one of the first female crime journalists in Miami, she wrote for the Miami Beach Daily Sun and the Miami Herald as a general assignment and police-beat reporter. She won a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 in 1986 for general reporting.

Her book Miami, It's Murder was nominated for an Edgar Award

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 in 1995.

Buchanan suffered a serious embarrassment in 1990 when she was quoted extensively in the book Blue Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald Aranow, by Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell.

Burdick...led her to believe that he was seeking only background information, never used a tape recorder or took notes, asked her to hypothesize about people and situations, then quoted her as if she were stating fact.

According to Buchanan, she tried to have her name and the quotes removed from the book after she had seen the galley proofs, but was told by the publisher that it was too late.

Fiction

• Nobody Lives Forever, 1990
• Contents under Pressure, 1992
• Miami, It's Murder, 1994
• Suitable for Framing, 1995
• Act of Betrayal, 1996
• Naked Came the Manatee
  Naked Came the Manatee
  Naked Came the Manatee is a mystery thriller parody novel published in 1996. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each written by a different Miami-area writer. It was originally published as a serial in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, one chapter per issue, and later published as a single novel...
  
  (serial novel by thirteen different authors with South Florida connections (in order): Dave Barry
  Dave Barry
  David "Dave" Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels.-Biography:Barry was born in Armonk, New York,...
  
  , Les Standiford
  Les Standiford
  Les Standiford is a historian and author and has since 1985 been the Director of the Florida International University Creative Writing Program. Although his most recent works have been narrative non-fiction historical pieces in the style of David McCulloch, his John Deal novels set him firmly in ...
  
  , Paul Levine
  Paul Levine
  Paul Levine is an American author of crime fiction, particularly legal thrillers. His novels have been translated into 21 languages. He has written three series, known generally by the names of the protagonists: "Jake Lassiter," "Solomon and Lord," and “Jimmy Payne.”Lassiter, a Miami Dolphins...
  
  , Edna Buchanan, James W. Hall, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, Tananarive Due
  Tananarive Due
  Tananarive Due is an American author.-Biography:Tananarive Priscilla Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr...
  
  , Brian Antoni
  Brian Antoni
  Brian Antoni is the author of the well regarded novel "South Beach: The Novel". "South Beach: The Novel" is based on Antoni's first hand knowledge of the resurgence of Miami Beach in the past two decades....
  
  , Vicki Hendricks, John Dufresne
  John Dufresne
  John Dufresne is an American author of French Canadian descent born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester State College in 1970 and the University of Arkansas in 1984. He is a professor in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program of the English Department at Florida...
  
  , Elmore Leonard
  Elmore Leonard
  Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...
  
   and Carl Hiaasen
  Carl Hiaasen
  Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist, columnist and novelist.- Early years :Born in 1953 and raised in Plantation, Florida, of Norwegian heritage, Hiaasen was the first of four children and the son of a lawyer, Kermit Odel, and teacher, Patricia...
  
  ), 1996
• Margin of Error, 1997
• Pulse, 1998
• Garden of Evil, 1999
• You Only Die Twice, 2001
• The Ice Maiden, 2002
• Cold Case Squad, 2004
• Shadows, 2005
• Love Kills, 2007
• Legally Dead, 2008

Nonfiction

• Carr: Five Years of Rape and Murder, 1979
• The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat, 1987
• Never Let Them See You Cry: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat, 1992
• Vice: Life and Death on the Streets of Miami, 1992

External links

• Edna Buchanan fansite.