The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
by Edna Buchanan
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This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for The Miami Herald. Reissue.Tags
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Miami Herald reporter) Edna Buchanan takes us along for a ride as she narrates some of the most memorable stories and characters of her career (to that point). Great, great book for any novelist who writes about crime....except these are all true! Makes me almost wish I'd taken up journalism. Edna Buchanan (from one former Jersey Girl to another), thank you for sharing your stories.
crime reporting in Miami
She covered the news for The Miami Herald.
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Edna Rydzik Buchanan was born in 1939 near Paterson, New Jersey. She attended creative writing classes at Montclair State Teacher's College. Buchanan was one of the first female crime reporters in Miami. Her police reporting for the Miami Herald won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1986. In 1979, Buchanan produced her first book, Carr: Five Years of Rape show more and Murder; From the Personal Account of Robert Frederick Car III. This nonfiction book recounts the story of a convicted rapist and murderer. In 1987, she published her memoirs, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. That book was followed in 1991 by Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami's Hottest Beat. Buchanan's crime novels include Nobody Lives Forever and Pulse. She is perhaps best known, however, for her mystery novels featuring a Cuban American crime reporter, Britt Montero. These titles include Contents Under Pressure; Miami, It's Murder; Suitable for Framing; Margin of Error, and Act of Betrayal. She has been a contributor to several magazines, including Fame, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone. Buchanan has received awards from the American Bar Association, National Newspaper Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- Edna Buchanan; Roxcy
- Important places
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Quotations
- "The person most likely to murder you sits across the breakfast table. Your nearest and dearest, the one who sleeps on the pillow next to yours and shares your checking account, can be far more lethal than any sinister stran... (show all)ger lurking in the shadow."
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 070.92 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Biography And History Biographies
- LCC
- PN4874 .B793 .A3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Journalism. The periodical press, etc. By region or country
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- UPCs
- 1
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