Awards & Winners

Lawrence Block

Date of Birth 24-June-1938
Place of Birth Buffalo
(United States of America, New York, Erie County, Area code 716)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Lawrence J. Block, Larry Block, Chip Harrison, Sheldon Lord, Lee Duncan, Paul Kavanagh, Andrew Shaw, Lesley Evans
Profession Writer, Novelist
Lawrence Block is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.

Awards by Lawrence Block

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lawrence Block.

2001


Anthony Award for Best Anthology/Short Story Collection
Honored for : Master's Choice, Volume II: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Short Story Looking for David

1998


Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : Keller on the Spot

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Short Story Keller on the Spot

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel A Long Line of Dead Men
Edgar Award for Best Novel A Long Line of Dead Men

1994


Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel
Honored for : The Devil Knows You're Dead
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Short Story
Honored for : The Merciful Angel Of Death
Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : Keller's Therapy
Edgar Grand Master Award

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel The Devil Knows You're Dead
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Short Story The Merciful Angel Of Death
Edgar Award for Best Short Story Keller's Therapy

1992


Edgar Award for Best Novel
Honored for : A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Edgar Award for Best Novel A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Edgar Award for Best Short Story A Blow for Freedom

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel A Ticket To The Boneyard
Edgar Award for Best Short Story Answers to Soldiers
Volume: June '90

1985


Shamus Award for Best P. I. Short Story
Honored for : By the Dawn's Early Light and Other Stories
Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : By Dawn's Early Light

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Short Story By the Dawn's Early Light
Edgar Award for Best Short Story By Dawn's Early Light

1983


Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel
Honored for : Eight Million Ways to Die

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel Eight Million Ways to Die
Edgar Award for Best Novel Eight Million Ways to Die

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel A Stab in the Dark

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Time to Murder and Create