2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
On April 24th, 2009 the winners of the 29th Annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize were announced at a ceremony held during the L. A. Times Festival of Books. The Prize was established in 1980 and includes a $1,000 cash award.
The winners of the 2008 Los Angeles Book Prize are:
Biography
IDA: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Current Interest
ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman (The Penguin Press)
Fiction
HOME by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
FINDING NOUF by Zoë Ferraris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
History
HITLER'S EMPIRE: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower (The Penguin Press)
Mystery/Thriller
ENVY THE NIGHT by Michael Koryta (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur)
Poetry
WATHING THE SPRING FESTIVAL: Poems by Frank Bidart
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Science and Technology
THE BLACK HOLE WAR: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind (Little, Brown and Co.)
Young Adult Literature
NATION by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
2008 Robert Kirsch Award Winner
Robert Alter
For more information about the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, go to http://www.LATimes.com.
2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominees
On March 2, 2009, the finalists of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize were announced. Five nominees were selected for each of the nine categories, consisting of Biography, Current Interest, Fiction, the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, History, Mystery/Thriller, Poetry, Science and Technology, and Young Adult. The winners will be announced during a ceremony on April 24th, at the start of the L. A. Times Festival of Books.
This year's nominees are:
Biography
A TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands (Doubleday)
DEMOCRACY'S PRISONER: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by Ernest Freeberg (Harvard University Press)
IDA - A SWORD AMONG LIONS: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings (Amistad Press)
AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
CHAGALL: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager (Knopf)
Current Interest
THE BIN LADENS: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll (Penguin)
THE FOREVER WAR by Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman (Penguin Press)
THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)
MY STROKE OF INSIGHT: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor (Viking)
Fiction
THE SECRET SCRIPTURE by Sebastian Barry (Viking)
LUSH LIFE by Richard Price (Picador)
HOME by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THE SIZE OF THE WORLD by Joan Silber (W.W. Norton)
THE GOD OF WAR by Marisa Silver (Simon & Schuster)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM by Uwem Akpan (Little, Brown)
FINDING NOUF by Zoe Ferraris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
THE OUTCAST by Sadie Jones (Harper)
MOSQUITO by Roma Tearne (HarperCollins)
THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
History
ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs (Knopf)
THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Knopf)
HITLER'S EMPIRE: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower (Penguin Press)
SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue (Random House)
OBSCENE IN THE EXTREME: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath by Rick Wartzman (PublicAffairs)
Mystery/Thriller
THE FINDER by Colin Harrison (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
ENVY THE NIGHT by Michael Koryta (Minotaur)
BAD TRAFFIC: An Inspector Jian Novel by Simon Lewis (Scribner)
THE AGE OF DREAMING by Nina Revoyr (Akashic Books)
CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central)
Poetry
WATCHING THE SPRING FESTIVAL: Poems by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
SEA CHANGE: Poems by Jorie Graham (Ecco)
THE KINGDOM OF ORDINARY TIME: Poems by Marie Howe (W. W. Norton)
OURS by Cole Swensen (University of California Press)
RARE HIGH MEADOW OF WHICH I MIGHT DREAM by Connie Voisine (University of Chicago Press)
Science & Technology
WHAT THE NOSE KNOWS: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery Gilbert (Crown)
ONLY A THEORY: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller (Viking)
WORLDS BEFORE ADAM: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform by Martin J.S. Rudwick (University of Chicago Press)
THE BLACK HOLE WAR: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind (Little, Brown)
MICROCOSM: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer (Pantheon)
Young Adult Literature
THE LINCOLNS: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade)
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
DARK DUDE by Oscar Hijuelos (Atheneum)
SWALLOW ME WHOLE by Nate Powell (Top Shelf Productions)
NATION by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
For more information about the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, go to http://www.LATimes.com.
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
On April 25, 2008, the winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize were announced at a ceremony held at UCLA's Royce Hall, kicking off the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. This year's winners include:
BiographyFor more information about the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, go to http://www.LATimes.com.
YOUNG STALIN by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf)
Current Interes
SOLDIER'S HEART: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Fiction
BE NEAR ME by Andrew O'Hagan (Viking)
History
LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (Doubleday)
Mystery / Thriller
THE INDIAN BRIDE by Karen Fossum (Translated by Charlotte Barslund) (Harcourt)
Poetry
OLD HEART: Poems by Stanley Plumy (W. W. Norton)
Science & Technology
I AM A STRANGE LOOP by Douglas Hofstadter
Young Adult Fiction
A DARKLING PLAIN: The Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
Robert Kirsch Award
Maxine Hong Kingston
2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
On April 27, 2007, the winners of the 27th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced at an award ceremony at UCLA's Royce Hall, to kick off the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The winners, who will each receive a $1,000 cash award, are:
Biography
WALT DISNEY: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler (Alfred A. Knopf)
Current Interest
MURDER IN AMSTERDAM: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
Fiction
A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM by A. B. Yehoshua [translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin] (Harcourt)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
WHITE GHOST GIRLS by Alice Greenway (Black Cat / Grove Atlantic)
History
THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
Mystery/Thriller
ECHO PARK: A Novel by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Poetry
OOGA-BOOGA by Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Science and Technology
IN SEARCH OF MEMORY: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (W. W. Norton)
Young Adult Fiction
TYRELL by Coe Booth (Push / Scholastic)
For more information about the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, go to http://www.LATimes.com.
2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists
On March 1st, 2007, the finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced. Established in 1980, the awards honor the best books written during the previous year in nine categories, including biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction.
The winners will be announced at a gala on April 27th at UCLA's Royce Hall, during the paper's Festival of Books. Previous winners include Gabriel García Mérquez, Mark Haddon, Frank McCourt, Barbara Ehrenreich, Adam Hochschild, George P. Pelecanos, Jack Gilbert, Dava Sobel, and M. T. Anderson.
The finalists for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are:
Biography
THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
THE LIBRETTIST OF VENICE: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America by Rodney Bolt (Bloomsbury USA)
WALT DISNEY: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler (Alfred A. Knopf)
PRISONERS: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg (Alfred A. Knopf)
THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins)
Current Interest
THE GREAT DELUGE: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley (William Morrow / HarperCollins)
MURDER IN AMSTERDAM: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Alfred A. Knopf)
THE BEAUTIFUL FALL: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake (Little, Brown)
STRANGE PIECE OF PARADISE by Terri Jentz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Fiction
BLACK SWAN GREEN: A Novel by David Mitchell (Random House)
THE SECOND COMING OF MAVALA SHIKONGO: A Novel by Peter Orner (Little, Brown)
A MILLION NIGHTINGALES by Susan Straight (Pantheon Books)
WINTER'S BONE: A Novel by Daniel Woodrell (Little, Brown)
A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM by A. B. Yehoshua [translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin] (Harcourt)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
WHITEMAN by Tony D'Souza (Harcourt)
SKINNER'S DRIFT: A Novel by Lisa Fugard (Scribner)
GOLDEN COUNTRY: A Novel by Jennifer Gilmore (Scribner)
WHITE GHOST GIRLS by Alice Greenway (Black Cat / Grove Atlantic)
MARY: A Novel by Janis Cooke Newman (MacAdam/Cage Publishing)
History
AT CANAAN'S EDGE: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
THE WAR OF THE WORLD: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson (Penguin Press)
MAYFLOWER: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Filbrick (Viking)
THE COLONY by John Tayman (Lisa Drew / Scribner)
THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
Mystery/Thriller
ECHO PARK: A Novel by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
CITY OF TINY LIGHTS by Patrick Neate (Riverhead Books)
THE NIGHT GARDENER: A Novel by George Pelecanos (Little, Brown)
THE ZERO: A Novel by Jess Walter (HarperCollins)
THE WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE by Don Winslow (Alfred A. Knopf)
Poetry
BLACK BOX by Erin Belieu (Copper Canyon Press)
LOGORRHEA by Adrian C. Louis (TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press)
BURNING WYCLIF by Thom Satterlee (Texas Tech University Press)
OOGA-BOOGA by Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
DARLING VULGARITY by Michael Waters (BOA Editions)
Science and Technology
THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce E. Chaplin (Basic Books)
THE FIRST HUMAN: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons (Doubleday)
IN SEARCH OF MEMORY: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (W. W. Norton)
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin (Dutton)
THE CREATION: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson (W. W. Norton)
Young Adult Fiction
THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, TRAITOR TO THE NATION, VOLUME 1: THE POX PARTY by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick Press)
TYRELL by Coe Booth (Push / Scholastic)
AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES by John Green (Dutton Books / Penguin Young Readers Group)
JUST IN CASE by Meg Rosoff (Wendy LAmb Books / Random House Children's Books)
THE RULES OF SURVIVAL by Nancy Werlin (Dial Books / Penguin Young Readers Group)
For more information about the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, go to http://www.LATimes.com.
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