Todd Mason wrote:
> Craig, I owe you a debt. I've been thinking he had a
nonfiction Edgar for
> years, and now discover that I'd misread something
(or been misinformed
> otherwise), probably about his short-fiction Edgar
for "The Affair at Lahore
> Cantonment" in 1962...I hadn't sat down with a list
and sought out the
> datum. For a year, he Was the only person to have
both a Hugo and an Edgar,
> till Jack/John Holbrook Vance joined him in that
club...though I suspect
> some sort of citatation was attached to Avram
Davidson's early-'60s true
> crime work...I now know it wasn't an
Edgar.
Glad I could help in some way. So, where do you think you
picked up the info on Davidson's writing techniques in the
"Men's Sweat" magazines?
> Glad you unlurked, btw. There's a Lot of uncollected
AD nonfiction, I
> suspect. TM
Thanks. I asked a friend, who knew Avram, about him working
for the men's magazines, and he confirmed it. He was a
terrific writer and I'd be curious to read his version of a
"I bit the head off a cobra, while fighting Amazon Nazis"
story from the "true" magazines.
Craig Smith
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Smith [mailto:
craismith@earthlink.net]
> That's interesting, I'd like to read more. When you
say, "his Edgar-winning
> nonfiction book", do you mean Davidson or someone
else? I wasn't aware of
> Davidson winning a nonfiction Edgar.
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