Awards & Winners

John Katzenbach

Date of Birth 23-June-1950
Place of Birth Princeton
(Mercer County, New Jersey, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Novelist
John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News, and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine. He is married to Madeleine Blais and they live in western Massachusetts. He left the newspaper industry to write psychological thrillers. His first, 1982's bestselling In the Heat of the Summer, became the movie The Mean Season, filmed partially in The Herald's newsroom and starring Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway. Two more of his books were made into films in the United States, 1995's Just Cause and 2002's Hart's War. A fourth book, The Wrong Man was recently made into the French TV film Faux Coupable.

Awards by John Katzenbach

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Katzenbach.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Anthony Award for Best Novel The Madman's Tale

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Barry Award for Best Novel Hart's War

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Novel The Shadow Man

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author In the Heat of the Summer