David Thompson Award

The David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award

The David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award is given by the Bouchercon Board to honor the memory and contributions to the crime fiction community of David Thompson, a much beloved Houston bookseller who passed away in 2010. Past winners selected by the Bouchercon National Board of Directors for their “extraordinary efforts to develop and promote the crime fiction field” are:

2020 – Al Abraham

                                          2019 – Don and Jenn Longmuir
                                          2018 – Lesa Holstine
                                          2017 – George Easter
                                          2016 – Otto Penzler
                                          2015 – Bill and Toby Gottfried
                                          2014 – Judy Bobalik
                                          2013 – Marv Lachman
                                          2012 – Len and June Moffatt
                                          2011 – Ali Karim

The award is given out each year during the Bouchercon Convention.