The Best American Crime Writing (54 page)

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THOMAS H. COOK
is the author of eighteen books, including two works of true crime. His novels have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Macavity Award, and the Dashiell Hammett Prize.
The Chatham School Affair
won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1996. His true crime book,
Blood Echoes
, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1992, and his story “Fatherhood” won the Herodotus Prize in 1998 and was included in
Best American Mystery Stories
of 1998, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain. His works have been translated into fifteen languages.

OTTO PENZLER
is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was the founder of the Mysterious Press and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for
The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection
and the Ellery Queen Award and a Raven by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the series editor of
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year
. His other anthologies include
Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The SO Greatest Mysteries of All Time
, and
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
. He wrote 101
Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense
. He lives in New York City.

JOHN BERENDT
is the author of
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
, which spent four years on
The New York Times
bestseller list. He has been the editor of
New York
magazine and an
Esquire
columnist. He lives in New York.

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