Edna Buchanan Biography

A native of Paterson New Jersey Edna Buchanan announced at age four that she planned to write books when she grew up. She couldn't read yet but Buchanan was already hooked on stories. Her first job was in a coat factory at age 12 and eventually she and her mother worked together building switchboards at Western Electric. For vacation they went to Miami Beach and for Buchanan it was love at first sight.
Her first job in Miami was at a small newspaper where she planned to support herself while writing. She didn't realize that the daily whirlwind of journalism can swallow up one's entire life and leave no time to read a novel much less write one. At the Miami Beach Daily Sun she covered local politics courts and police interviewed celebrities took pictures picked the greyhound races for the sports department wrote a column and wrote the letters to the editor when readers did not.
Five years and numerous awards later she joined the Miami Herald. After a year on general assignment and a year on the criminal court beat Buchanan suggested that a reporter should visit the police departments the jail and the morgue each day. Her editor thought she was volunteering and to her shock Buchanan found herself covering the cops. In her years on the police beat she reported more than 5000 violent deaths 3000 of which were homicides. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Green Eye Shade Award for deadline reporting.

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