Best American Crime Writing 2003

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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 Affairwon 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 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 publisher ofThe Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award forThe Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detectionand the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the series editor ofThe Best American Mystery Stories of the Year. His other anthologies includeMurder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time,andThe Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. He lives in New York City. John Berendt is the author ofMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evilwhich spent four years on the New York Times Bestseller list. He has been the editor ofNew Yorkmagazine and anEsquirecolumnist. He lives in New York.