Marv Lachman has been reading mysteries since 1943, when he was
eleven. He won Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best
Critical/Biographical Work of 1976, for Encyclopedia of Mystery and
Detection (with co-authors Chris Steinbrunner, Otto Penzler, and
Charles Shibuk). He was nominated for the same award in 1994 for A
Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection, which was also
nominated for an Agatha, an Anthony, and a Macavity Award. Lachman
won the Macavity Award in 2001 for The American Regional Mystery
(2000), which was also nominated for an Anthony and an Agatha.
Lachman was given a Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America
in 1997, for his fan-related activities. MWA's Raven is a "special
award given for outstanding achievement in the mystery field
outside the realm of creative writing." In 2001 he received the
first Don Sandstrom Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in
Mystery Fandom. In 2013 the Bouchercon Board of Directors gave him
the David Thompson Special Service Award for his "exemplary
life-long service to the mystery and crime fiction community." In
2019 Marv is attending his fortieth Bouchercon.
The first edition of The Heirs of Anthony Boucher (2005) won the
Anthony Award at Bouchercon in 2006. Marv's most recent book was
The Villainous Stage (2014), a history of crime plays in New York
and London. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Carol.
It is, after all, mystery fandom that keeps alive all those
great
names from yesterday while discovering the new classic writers of
our own day. With this book Marv Lachman has done an amazing job of
chronicling it all, from the earliest Sherlockians through the
popular fanzines and mystery conventions to the latest internet
websites. Read it, and rejoice!
--Edward D. Hoch, MWA Grandmaster Awardee
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