Awards & Winners

Anthony Award for Best Critical/Nonfiction Work

Anthony Awards

Check all the winners of Anthony Award for Best Critical/Nonfiction Work presented under Anthony Awards since 1999 .


P. D. James

Honored for : Talking about Detective Fiction

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
P. D. James Talking about Detective Fiction
Otto Penzler The Line Up: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
Lisa Rogak Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
Elena Santangelo Dame Agatha's Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion
Joan Schenkar The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

Jeffrey Marks

Honored for : Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frankie Y. Bailey African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study
Kathy Lynn Emerson How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries: The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past
Jeffrey Marks Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography
Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley

Honored for : Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jon Lellenberg Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Daniel Stashower Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Charles Foley Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Roger M. Sobin The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians
Patrick Anderson The Triumph of the Thriller
Christiana Gregoriou Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Jim Huang, Austin Lugar

Honored for : Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jim Huang Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers
Austin Lugar Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers
Gary Warren Niebuhr Read 'Em Their Writes: A Handbook for Mystery and Crime Fiction Book Discussions
Chris Roerden Don't Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript from Turning up D. O. A.
Daniel Stashower The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder
E.J. Wagner The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear

Marvin Lachman

Honored for : The Heirs of Anthony Boucher: A History of Mystery Fandom

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Marvin Lachman The Heirs of Anthony Boucher: A History of Mystery Fandom
Stuart M. Kaminsky Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed
Melanie Rehak Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Leslie S. Klinger The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
Hallie Ephron Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'em Dead with Style

Gary Warren Niebuhr

Honored for : Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Colleen Barnett Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol III
Jane Doe The Story of Jane Doe: A Book About Rape
Jon Jordan Interrogations
Gary Warren Niebuhr Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
Andrew Wilson Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith

Jim Huang

Honored for : They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mike Ashley The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction: The Authors, Their Works and Their Most Famous Creations
Jim Huang They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels
Jeffrey Marks Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel

Tony Hillerman

Honored for : Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir

Jim Huang

Honored for : 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century

Willetta L. Heising

Honored for : Detecting Women: A Readers Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women

George Easter

Honored for : Deadly Pleasures Magazine