THE SAVAGE CITY Nominated for Edgar Award

The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) have announced their 2012 nominations for the prestigious Edgar Award, and among the nominees is THE SAVAGE CITY, the NY Times best-seller by T.J. English. The book is nominated in the category of Best Fact Crime.

The venerable MWA annually gives out awards for mystery and crime fiction, as well non-fiction and screenwriting for television and movies. The Edgar Awards, named after legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe, will be given out at the organization's annual awards banquet April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in NYC.

This is the third time T.J. English has been nominated in this category. His first nomination was for for BORN TO KILL (1995), the true story of a Vietnamese gang based in New York City's Chinatown neighborhood in the early 1990s. English was nominated again in 2009 for HAVANA NOCTURNE, an account of the Mob's infiltration of Havana, Cuba in the 1950s in the years before the Cuban revolution.

THE SAVAGE CITY is an epic account of a ten-year period in NYC history, from 1963 to 1973, when racial tension between the NYPD and the Black liberation movement brought the city to a boiling point. The book was a NY Times best-seller, and English was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to promote the book.

For a complete list of this year's nominees for the Edgar Award, click the following link:
http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html