Awards and Honors

• 1957 – Boys' Life-Dodd, Mead prize for Dangerous Deadline.
• 1973 – Amos Ives Root Award, Ohio Aviation Trades Association for articles on aviation.
• 1989 – Ohioana Citation, Ohioana Library Association, for contributions to children's literature.
• 1993 – Person of the Week, ABC-TV’s World News Tonight.
• 1993 – Honored by the University of Iowa (her alma mater) at its Nancy Drew Conference for Adults and Children.
• Citation for Feature Writing, Ohio Newspaper Women's Association.
• 2000 – Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement, Malice Domestic.
• 2001 – Edgar Allan Poe Special Award, Mystery Writers of America.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004.

Gale Database: Contemporary Authors