Luther Davis’s Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Writers of America Award
date: label: date made
content: 1964
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This award, a molded ceramic bust of author Edgar Allan Poe, was presented by the Mystery Writers of America Association to dramatist Luther Davis in 1970 for his television screenplay, Daughter of the Mind. The plot of this TV thriller centers on a cybernetic professor who is convinced that his dead daughter is attempting to communicate with him. The Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City, was founded in 1945 by authors Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. In addition to his work for television, Luther Davis also wrote the screenplay for the 1947 film The Hucksters and co-authored (with Charles Lederer) the script for the stage musical, Kismet.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0054.04
label: accession number
content: 2009.0054
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0054.04`
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Award
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 24.13 cm x 11.43 cm x 10.795 cm