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Florida Heritage Book Festival will honor author Edna Buchanan in September

Posted: April 10, 2012 - 12:30am

Novelist Edna Buchanan is this year’s 2012 Literary Legend for the Florida Heritage Book Festival, organizers of the St. Augustine-based festival announced Monday.

“She’s excited about coming and that’s wonderful,” said Jewell M. Kutzer, co-director of the Book Festival. “We’ve never had a woman (as honoree).”

It’s not for lack of trying, Kutzer said, adding she tried to get Buchanan back in 2008, but contacts “kept putting me off. … When I got her this time she told me she never got any of those messages.”

For 18 years, Buchanan worked the crime beat for the Miami Herald. In 1986 Buchanan won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting. In their nominating letter, Miami Herald editors wrote. “They don’t make cop reporters like her anymore, if they ever did. She is a savvy, fast, tough, hard-as-nails cop reporter with a heart of gold. True. Absolutely.”

Her true crime memoir, “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face,” won her international acclaim and was followed by another memoir, “Never Let Them See You Cry.” Her first book, a case study of a serial sex killer with a photographic memory, was used as a teaching tool for FBI profilers, according to her website.

After her memoirs, she turned to fiction, writing a series featuring Britt Montero, a crime reporter for a major Miami paper.

This year’s Florida Heritage Book Festival includes a two-day writers’ conference on Sept. 13 and 14 at the Convention Center. Among speakers will be Steve Berry, the New York Times international bestselling author who lives in St. Augustine, and William McKeen, chairman of the Department of Journalism at Boston University and former head of the journalism program at the University of Florida. Jeff Lindsay, author and creator of “Dexter,” the dark hero of the popular Showtime program, will give a keynote address on Sept. 13.

The book festival featuring 20 authors will be Sept 15 at Flagler College’s Ringhaver Student Center and is free and open to the public.

The Florida Heritage Book Festival is a nonprofit organization with all proceeds benefiting The Friends of the Libraries of St. Johns County and The St. Augustine Record News in Education program.

Past Literary Legend honorees include Stetson Kennedy, Jack Hunter, Patrick Smith, Michael Gannon, Harry Crews, Michael Connelly, Carl Hiaasen, Peter Matthiessen and Randy Wayne White.

For more on the festival, including conference schedules and ticket information, go to www.flbookfest.com.

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