John Seigenthaler Legends Award Winners

The 2018 John Seigenthaler Legends Award winner, Otto Penzler, is the president and CEO of MysteriousPress.com. He’s also the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and is regarded as the world’s foremost authority on crime, mystery, and suspense fiction. Penzler founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, which he later sold to Warner…

Max Allan Collins is the recipient of the 2017 Killer Nashville John Seigenthaler Legends Award. He has earned an unprecedented twenty-two Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning twice for best novel and once for best short story. In 2007 he received the Eye, the PWA life achievement award, and in 2012 his Nathan…

Robert J. Randisi is the recipient of the 2016 Killer Nashville John Seigenthaler Legends Award. An exceptionally prolific author—he has written over 650 novels in the western, mystery, sci-fi, horror, and spy genres, under different pseudonyms—Randisi’s dedication to the craft is rivaled only by his passion for advocating, encouraging, and featuring other genre writers. He…

Killer Nashville is proud to announce the 2015 Killer Nashville John Seigenthaler Legends Award winner is New York Times bestselling author and legendary criminal prosecutor Robert K. Tanenbaum. He will be honored at this year’s Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference October 31 at the Omni Nashville Hotel. Tanenbaum shares with John Seigenthaler an equally distinguished career…

The inaugural recipient of The John Seigenthaler Legends Award in 2014 is the author of over 120 books, both fiction and nonfiction, including some wonderful investigative nonfiction. He is a man who has survived publishing, a man who has changed publishing, a man who is a fighter, an incredible mentor, a brilliant mind, and someone…