2011 Presenters
George Pelecanos
George Pelecanos is a best-selling crime novelist and an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire and the collections Unusual Suspects, Best American Mystery Stories, Measures of Poison, Men From Boys, Murder at the Foul Line, and D.C. Noir, for which he also served as editor. Pelecanos was a producer, Emmy-nominated writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO dramatic series The Wire, winner of the Peabody Award and the AFI Award. His most recent work is The Cut, the first installment in a new crime series, which Publishers Weekly is calling "vital and timely."
LINKS:
George Pelecanos's publisher web page
Interview with George Pelecanos for Identity Theory
