Awards & Winners

Macavity Awards for Best Non-fiction

Macavity Awards

Date Established : 2005

Check all the winners of Macavity Awards for Best Non-fiction presented under Macavity Awards since 2005 .


P. D. James

Honored for : Talking about Detective Fiction

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
P. D. James Talking about Detective Fiction
John Buntin L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
Craig McDonald Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life
Otto Penzler The Line Up: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
Laney Salisbury Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Elena Santangelo Dame Agatha's Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion

Frankie Y. Bailey

Honored for : African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frankie Y. Bailey African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study
Leonard Cassuto Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
Kathy Lynn Emerson How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries: The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past
David Geherin Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction
Harry Lee Poe Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories
Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Roger M. Sobin

Honored for : The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Roger M. Sobin The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians
Barry Forshaw The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction
Jean Gould O'Connell Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy
Jon Lellenberg Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Charles Foley Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Daniel Stashower Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Lee Lofland Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers

D. P. Lyle, MD

Honored for : Forensics for Dummies

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
Daniel Stashower The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder
Chris Roerden Don't Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript from Turning up D. O. A.

Melanie Rehak

Honored for : Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Melanie Rehak Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Jonathan Goodman Tracks To Murder
Stuart M. Kaminsky Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed
Leslie S. Klinger The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
Mary Roach Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Austin Lugar, Jim Huang

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

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
D. P. Lyle, MD Forensics for Dummies
Frankie Y. Bailey
Jim Doherty Just the Facts: True Tales of Cops & Criminals
Leslie S. Klinger The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
Darrell B. Lockhart Latin American Mystery Writers: An A to Z Guide