Categories
- Best novel (since 1954)
- Best first novel by an American author (since 1946)
- Best paperback original (since 1970)
- Best short story (since 1951)
- Best fact crime (since 1948)
- Best critical/biographical work (since 1977)
- Best young adult (since 1989)
- Best juvenile (since 1961)
- Best episode in a TV series (since 1952)
- Best TV feature or miniseries (since 1972)
- Best motion picture screenplay (since 1946)
- Best play (since 1950, irregular)
- Special Edgars (since 1949, irregular)
- Robert L. Fish Memorial Award (since 1984)
- Raven Award (since 1953)
- Grand Master Award (since 1955)
- Ellery Queen Award (since 1983)
- Mary Higgins Clark Award (since 2001)
- Best radio drama (1946–1960)
- Outstanding Mystery Criticism (1946–1967)
- Best foreign film (1949–1966)
- Best book jacket (1955–1975)
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Famous quotes containing the word categories:
“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”
—Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)
“Of course I’m a black writer.... I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call “literature” is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hassidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)