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Honorable Mention, 2025 PCA Emily Toth Award For Best Single Work In Women’s Studies
Finalist, 2025 Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category
Finalist, Bouchercon New Orleans 2025 Anthony Awards, Best Critical/Non-Fiction
Nominated for the 2025 Macavity Awards, Best Mystery-related Nonfiction/Critical

Ashley Lawson’s On Edge presents a new picture of postwar American literature, arguing that biases against genre fiction have unfairly disadvantaged the ...

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Social Sciences Literature Literary Criticism LGBT Studies Genres & Literary Forms General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism American Literature Mystery & Suspense Fiction - Literary Criticism LGBT Literary Studies Women Authors - American (U.S.) - Literary Criticism 20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism Miscellaneous Genres & Literary Forms - Literary Criticism 20th Century American Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism Highsmith, Patricia (1921-1995)->Criticism and interpretation Best Nonfiction/Critical Work Nominees->2025 Anthony Awards Mystery & Thriller Book Awards Anthony Awards 2025 Anthony Awards

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett