Joseph Goodrich

Joseph Goodrich has been described by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine as “one of the most versatile writers in the mystery field.” An Edgar Award-winning playwright (Panic), his work has been produced across the United States as well as in Canada, China, and Australia. His adaptations of The Red Box and Might As Well Be Dead – the first officially-sanctioned stage versions of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe stories – had their world premieres at Park Square Theater in Saint Paul, MN. Canada’s Vertigo Theater produced the world premiere of his adaption of Ellery Queen’s Calamity Town, which received the 2016 Calgary Theater Critics Award for Best New Script.

His novel The Paris Manuscript was published in 2022. He is the author of Unusual Suspects: Selected Non-Fiction, and the editor of People in a Magazine: The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and His Editors at “The New Yorker” and Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950, which was nominated for Anthony and Agatha Awards. His fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and two Mystery Writers of America anthologies. His non-fiction has appeared in EQMM, AHMM, Mystery Scene, and Crimespree. An alumnus of New Dramatists, an active member of MWA, and a former Calderwood Fellow at McDowell, he lives in New York City. He is a published poet and has written for Marvel Comics’ Spiderman Unlimited. An active member of Mystery Writers of America, he is proud to have served as a board member of MWA-NY. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Calderwood Fellow at MacDowell. Born in Minnesota, he lives in New York City.