OTTO PENZLER is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He has founded several mystery-focused imprints, including The Mysterious Press, Otto Penzler Books, and The Armchair Detective Library. He has also edited many mystery anthologies, including the Best American Mystery Stories series, and co-wrote the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, which won an Edgar
® Award. He has won the Ellery Queen Award and the Raven Award from Mystery Writers of America for his exceptional contributions to mystery editing, publishing, and bookselling.
About Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years. Mr. Penzler was the founder of The Mysterious Press, which has now become part of the Warner publishing empire; he also created the publishing firm of Otto Penzler Books, which is now an imprint at Carroll & Graf, and The Armchair Detective Library, a publishing house devoted to reprinting classic crime fiction for the collector and library markets.
