Edna Buchanan Autographs
Edna Buchanan (née Rydzik, born March 16, 1939) is an American journalist and writer who is best known for her crime mystery novels. She won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting "for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting."
Buchanan was born in Paterson, New Jersey. In high school she worked in a coat factory and after graduating she worked, along with her mother, at a Western Electric plant. She attended Montclair State College, where she took a creative writing course and was encouraged to become a writer. She and her mother took a vacation to Miami Beach and, according to Buchanan, she knew as soon as she walked off the plane that she wanted to leave Paterson.
Buchanan began her career writing for the Miami Beach Sun, covering crime, local politics, society, celebrity interviews and occasionally letters to the editor. In 1973, she began working as a police beat reporter for the Miami Herald. In 1986 she won the Pulitzer Prize in General News Reporting. Buchanan retired from The Miami Herald in 1988 to devote herself to writing novels.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Edna Buchanan (Edna Buchanan / The Corpse Had a Familiar Face / Signed 1st Edition in DJ / 1987) was sold in February 2025 for $79.50 while the cheapest item (Cold Case Squad By Edna Buchanan (2004, Hardcover), Signed) found a new owner for $3.50 in March 2026. The month with the most items sold (6) was July 2025 with an average selling price of $20.00 for an autographed item of Edna Buchanan. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2025 with $39.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.70 was August 2023. In average, an autographed item from Edna Buchanan is worth $20.74.
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