Mayor Wins American Bookseller Association Award for Fiction

Mystery writer Archer Mayor knows many things: That ordinary people with everyday struggles make the best heroes; that the "good guys" and the "bad guys" may not be all that different from each other; that real drama is fueled, not simply by murders and car chases and gun fights, but by love and loss and desire.

And because Mayor knows such things so well, he now knows what it feels like to win the New England Bookseller's Association award for fiction (for his novel, "The Surrogate Thief").

He considers the award recognition of his 16-year effort to not put out a standard whodunit, turgid with hard-nosed cops who hit the bottle and their wives. For Mayor, who has a degree in history from Yale University, the process of writing is all pleasure.

"I love editing. I love rewriting. Writing is where I need to be," he says.

~Taken from Article from Brattleboro Reformer, Vermont