Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). In addition, the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West.[1] It is named in honor of Robert Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book critic from 1952 until his death in 1980 whose idea it was to establish the book prizes.
David Eggers, double winner of the Book Prize in 2009
The Book Prize program was founded by Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985. An award named for Seidenbaum was added a year after his death in 1990. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, and may be written originally in languages other than English. The author of each winning book and the Kirsch Award recipient receives a citation and $1,000. The prizes are presented the day before the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Proseedit
The Los Angeles Times – Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose has been awarded in partnership with the Christopher Isherwood Foundation since April 2017 (for 2016).[16]
The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose winners
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angeles, times, book, prize, since, 1980, angeles, times, awarded, annual, book, prizes, currently, nine, categories, biography, current, interest, fiction, first, fiction, seidenbaum, award, added, 1991, history, mystery, thriller, category, added, 2000, poet. Since 1980 the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories biography current interest fiction first fiction the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991 history mystery thriller category added in 2000 poetry science and technology category added in 1989 and young adult fiction category added in 1998 In addition the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West 1 It is named in honor of Robert Kirsch the Los Angeles Times book critic from 1952 until his death in 1980 whose idea it was to establish the book prizes David Eggers double winner of the Book Prize in 2009The Book Prize program was founded by Art Seidenbaum a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985 An award named for Seidenbaum was added a year after his death in 1990 Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English and may be written originally in languages other than English The author of each winning book and the Kirsch Award recipient receives a citation and 1 000 The prizes are presented the day before the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Contents 1 Winners 1 1 Biography 1 2 Current interest 1 3 Fiction 1 4 History 1 5 Mystery thriller 1 6 Science and technology 1 7 Poetry 1 8 Young adult literature 1 9 The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 1 10 Graphic Novel Comics 1 11 The Robert Kirsch Award 1 12 Innovator s Award 1 13 The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose 1 14 The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science Fiction Fantasy amp Speculative Fiction 2 References 3 External linksWinners editBiography edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 1981 David McCullough Mornings on Horseback Simon amp Schuster1982 Gay Wilson Allen Waldo Emerson A Biography Viking1983 Seymour Hersh The Price of Power Kissinger in the Nixon White House Summit Books1984 Ernst Pawel The Nightmare of Reason Farrar Straus and Giroux1985 Michael Scammell Solzhenitsyn W W Norton amp Company1986 Maynard Mack Alexander Pope A Life W W Norton amp Company1987 Kenneth S Lynn Hemingway Simon amp Schuster1988 Brenda Maddox Nora The Real Life of Molly Bloom Houghton Mifflin1989 Tobias Wolff This Boy s Life A Memoir Atlantic Monthly Press1990 Geoffrey C Ward A First Class Temperament The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Harper amp Row1991 T H Watkins Righteous Pilgrim The Life and Times of Harold L Ickes 1874 1952 Henry Holt1992 Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Roosevelt Volume One 1884 1933 Viking1993 John Mack Faragher Daniel Boone The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer Henry Holt1994 Mikal Gilmore Shot in the Heart Doubleday1995 Doris Lessing Under My Skin Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949 HarperCollins1996 Frank McCourt Angela s Ashes A Memoir Scribner1997 Sam Tanenhaus Whittaker Chambers A Biography Random House1998 A Scott Berg Lindbergh G P Putnam s Sons1999 Judith Thurman Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette Alfred A Knopf2000 William J Cooper Jr Jefferson Davis American Alfred A Knopf2001 Edmund Morris Theodore Rex Random House2002 Robert A Caro Master of the Senate The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 3 Alfred A Knopf2003 Neil Smith American Empire Roosevelt s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization University of California Press2004 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan de Kooning An American Master Alfred A Knopf2005 Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master A Life of Henri Matisse the Conquest of Colour 1909 1954 Alfred A Knopf2006 Neal Gabler Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination Alfred A Knopf2007 Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin Alfred A Knopf2008 Paula J Giddings Ida A Sword Among Lions Ida B Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Amistad HarperCollins2009 Linda Gordon Dorothea Lange A Life Beyond Limits W W Norton amp Company2010 Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption Random House2011 John A Farrell Clarence Darrow Attorney for the Damned Doubleday2012 Robert A Caro The Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Alfred A Knopf2013 Marie Arana Bolivar American Liberator Simon amp Schuster2014 Andrew Roberts Napoleon A Life Viking2015 Hayden Herrera Listening to Stone The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi Farrar Straus and Giroux2016 Volker Ullrich with Jefferson Chase trans Hitler Ascent 1889 1939 Alfred A Knopf2017 Laura Walls Henry David Thoreau A Life University of Chicago Press2018 David W Blight Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom Simon amp Schuster 2 2019 George Packer Our Man Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Alfred A Knopf 3 4 5 2020 William Souder Mad at the World A Life of John Steinbeck W W Norton amp Company 6 7 8 2021 Paul Auster Burning Boy The Life and Work of Stephen Crane Henry Holt amp Company 9 2022 Beverly Gage G Man J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Viking Press 10 Current interest edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 1980 Harrison Salisbury Without Fear or Favor New York Times Books1981 Jacobo Timerman Prisoner without a Name Cell without a Number Alfred A Knopf1982 Jonathan Schell The Fate of the Earth Alfred A Knopf1983 Walker Percy Lost in the Cosmos Farrar Straus and Giroux1984 Jane Jacobs Cities and the Wealth of Nations Random House1985 Robert N Bellah Richard Madsen William M Sullivan Ann Swidler and Steven M Tipton Habits of the Heart Individualism and Commitment in American Life University of California Press1986 Joseph Lelyveld Move Your Shadow South Africa Black and White Times Books1987 Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker W W Norton amp Company1988 William Greider Secrets of the Temple How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country Simon amp Schuster1989 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters America in the King Years 1954 1963 Simon amp Schuster1990 O B Hardison Jr Disappearing through the Skylight Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century Viking1991 E J Dionne Jr Why Americans Hate Politics The Death of the Democratic Process Simon amp Schuster1992 Francis Fukuyama The End of History and the Last Man The Free Press1993 Peter Skerry Mexican Americans The Ambivalent Minority The Free Press1994 Henry Kissinger Diplomacy Simon amp Schuster1995 Gregory Howard Williams Life on the Color Line The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Dutton1996 Peter Maass Love Thy Neighbor A Story of War Alfred A Knopf1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down A Hmong Child Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures Farrar Straus and Giroux1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Stories from Rwanda Farrar Straus and Giroux1999 Mitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter photographer Sidewalk Farrar Straus and Giroux2000 Frances FitzGerald Way Out There in the Blue Reagan Star Wars and the End of the Cold War Simon amp Schuster2001 Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed On Not Getting by in America Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company2002 Judith Levine Harmful to Minors The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex University of Minnesota Press2003 Ross Terrill The New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United States Basic Books 11 2004 Evan Wright Generation Kill Devil Dogs Iceman Captain America and the New Face of American War G P Putnam s Sons2005 Anthony Shadid Night Draws Near Iraq s People in the Shadow of America s War Henry Holt2006 Ian Buruma Murder in Amsterdam The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance Penguin Press2007 Elizabeth D Samet Soldier s Heart Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point Farrar Straus and Giroux2008 Barton Gellman Angler The Cheney Vice Presidency Penguin Press2009 Dave Eggers Zeitoun McSweeney s Books2010 Michael Lewis The Big Short Inside the Doomsday Machine W W Norton amp Company2011 Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow Farrar Straus and Giroux2012 Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Random House2013 Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial Life and Death in a Storm Ravaged Hospital Crown2014 Jeff Hobbs The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Scribner2015 Sarah Chayes Thieves of State Why Corruption Threatens Global Security W W Norton and Company2016 Svetlana Alexievich with Bela Shayevich trans Secondhand Time The Last of the Soviets Random House2017 Nancy MacLean Democracy in Chains The Deep History of the Radical Right s Stealth Plan for America Viking Press2018 Francisco Cantu The Line Becomes a River Dispatches From the Border Riverhead Books2019 Emily Bazelon Charged The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration Random House 12 2020 Isabel Wilkerson Caste The Origins of Our Discontents Random House 6 2021 Adam Schiff Midnight in Washington How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could Random House 9 2022 Dahlia Lithwick Lady Justice Women the Law and the Battle to Save America Penguin Press 10 Fiction edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 1980 Walker Percy The Second Coming Farrar Straus and Giroux1981 D M Thomas The White Hotel Viking1982 Robert Stone A Flag for Sunrise Alfred A Knopf1983 Thomas Keneally Schindler s Ark Simon amp Schuster1984 Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Harper amp Row1985 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine Holt Rinehart and Winston1986 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid s Tale Houghton Mifflin1987 James Welch Fools Crow Viking1988 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera Alfred A Knopf1989 Fay Weldon The Heart of the Country Viking1990 Edna O Brien Lantern Slides Farrar Straus and Giroux1991 Allan Gurganus White People Alfred A Knopf1992 Art Spiegelman Maus II A Survivor s Tale And Here My Troubles Began Pantheon Books1993 Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven HarperCollins1994 David Malouf Remembering Babylon Pantheon Books1995 William Boyd The Blue Afternoon Alfred A Knopf1996 Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Alfred A Knopf1997 James Carlos Blake In the Rogue Blood Avon Books1998 W G Sebald with Michael Hulse trans The Rings of Saturn New Directions1999 Amit Chaudhuri Freedom Song Three Novels Alfred A Knopf2000 David Means Assorted Fire Events Context Books2001 Mary Robison Why Did I Ever Counterpoint2002 Ian McEwan Atonement Nan A Talese Doubleday2003 Pete Dexter Train Doubleday 11 2004 Colm Toibin The Master Scribner2005 Gabriel Garcia Marquez with Edith Grossman trans Memories of My Melancholy Whores Alfred A Knopf2006 A B Yehoshua with Hillel Halkin trans A Woman in Jerusalem Harcourt2007 Andrew O Hagan Be Near Me Harcourt2008 Marilynne Robinson Home Farrar Straus and Giroux2009 Rafael Yglesias A Happy Marriage Scribner2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad Alfred A Knopf2011 Alex Shakar Luminarium SOHO Press2012 Ben Fountain Billy Lynn s Long Halftime Walk HarperCollins Publishers Ecco2013 Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being Viking2014 Siri Hustvedt The Blazing World Simon amp Schuster2015 Valeria Luiselli The Story of My Teeth Coffee House Press2016 Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone Little Brown and Company2017 Mohsin Hamid Exit West Riverhead Books2018 Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers Viking2019 Ben Lerner The Topeka School Farrar Straus and Giroux 12 2020 David Diop with Anna Moschovakis trans At Night All Blood Is Black Farrar Straus and Giroux 6 2021 Veronique Tadjo In the Company of Men Don Quichotte 9 2022 Mircea Cărtărescu with Sean Cotter trans Solenoid Deep Vellum 10 History edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century Atlantic Little Brown and Co 1981 Ray Allen Billington Land of Savagery Land of Promise W W Norton amp Company1982 Jonathan D Spence The Gate of Heavenly Peace The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895 1980 Viking1983 Fernand Braudel The Wheels of Commerce Harper amp Row1984 Robert Darnton The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History Basic Books1985 Evan S Connell Son of the Morning Star Custer and the Little Bighorn North Point Press1986 Geoffrey Hosking The First Socialist Society A History of the Soviet Union from Within Harvard University Press1987 Robert Jay Lifton The Nazi Doctors Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide 13 1988 Eric Foner Reconstruction America s Unfinished Revolution 1863 1877 Harper amp Row1989 Neal Gabler An Empire of Their Own How the Jews Invented Hollywood Crown1990 Richard Fletcher The Quest for El Cid Alfred A Knopf1991 Nicholas Lemann The Promised Land The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America Alfred A Knopf1992 Alexander Stille Benevolence and Betrayal Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism Summit1993 Anthony Grafton New Worlds Ancient Texts The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery Harvard University Press1994 George Chauncey Gay New York Gender Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890 1940 Basic Books1995 Jackson Lears Fables of Abundance A Cultural History of Advertising in America Basic Books1996 Neal Ascherson Black Sea Hill amp Wang1997 Orlando Figes A People s Tragedy A History of the Russian Revolution Viking1998 Roy Porter The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity W W Norton amp Company1999 John W Dower Embracing Defeat Japan in the Wake of World War II W W Norton amp Company2000 Alice Kaplan The Collaborator The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach University of Chicago Press2001 Rick Perlstein Before the Storm Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Hill and Wang Division Farrar Straus and Giroux2002 Michael B Oren Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Oxford University Press2003 Henry Wiencek An Imperfect God George Washington His Slaves and the Creation of America Farrar Straus and Giroux2004 Geoffrey R Stone Perilous Times Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism W W Norton amp Company2005 Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire s Slaves Houghton Mifflin2006 Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower Al Qaeda and the Road to 9 11 Alfred A Knopf2007 Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes The History of the CIA Doubleday2008 Mark Mazower Hitler s Empire How the Nazis Ruled Europe Penguin Press2009 Kevin Starr Golden Dreams California in an Age of Abundance 1950 1963 Oxford University Press2010 Thomas Powers The Killing of Crazy Horse Alfred A Knopf2011 Richard White Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America W W Norton amp Company2012 Fergus M Bordewich America s Great Debate Henry Clay Stephen A Douglas and the Compromise That Preserved the Union Simon amp Schuster2013 Christopher Clark The Sleepwalkers How Europe Went to War in 1914 HarperCollins2014 Adam Tooze The Deluge The Great War America and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916 1931 Viking2015 Dan Ephron Killing a King The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel W W Norton amp Company2016 Benjamin Madley An American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe 1846 1873 Yale University Press2017 Dan Egan The Death and Life of the Great Lakes W W Norton amp Company2018 Julia Boyd Travelers in the Third Reich The Rise of Fascism 1919 1945 Pegasus Books2019 Stephanie Jones Rogers They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Yale University Press2020 Martha S Jones Vanguard How Black Women Broke Barriers Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All Basic Books 6 2021 Ada Ferrer Cuba An American History Scribner2022 Margaret A Burnham By Hands Now Known Jim Crow s Legal Executioners W W Norton amp CompanyMystery thriller edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery Thriller Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery Thriller winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 2000 Val McDermid A Place of Execution St Martin s Press Minotaur2001 T Jefferson Parker Silent Joe Hyperion2002 George P Pelecanos Hell to Pay Little Brown and Company2003 George P Pelecanos Soul Circus Little Brown and Company2004 Kem Nunn Tijuana Straits Scribner2005 Robert Littell Legends Overlook Press2006 Michael Connelly Echo Park2007 Karin Fossum with Charlotte Barslund trans The Indian Bride Harcourt2008 Michael Koryta Envy the Night Thomas Dunne Books St Martin s Minotaur2009 Stuart Neville The Ghosts of Belfast SOHO Press2010 Tom Franklin Crooked Letter Crooked Letter William Morrow and Co 2011 Stephen King 11 22 63 Scribner2012 Tana French Broken Harbor Viking2013 J K Rowling as Robert Galbraith The Cuckoo s Calling Mulholland Books Little Brown and Company2014 Tom Bouman Dry Bones in the Valley W W Norton and Company2015 Don Winslow The Cartel Alfred A Knopf2016 Bill Beverly Dodgers Crown2017 Joyce Carol Oates A Book of American Martyrs Ecco2018 Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister the Serial Killer Viking2019 Steph Cha Your House Will Pay Ecco 12 2020 S A Cosby Blacktop Wasteland Flatiron Books 6 2021 Megan Abbott The Turnout G P Putnam s Sons 9 2022 Alex Segura Secret Identity A Novel Flatiron Books 10 Science and technology edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 1989 Frans de Waal Peacemaking among Primates Harvard University Press1990 Jane S Smith Patenting the Sun Polio and the Salk Vaccine William Morrow and Co 1991 Grigori Medvedev The Truth About Chernobyl Basic Books1992 Jared Diamond The Third Chimpanzee The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal HarperCollins1993 Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger Fuzzy Logic The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology and How It Is Changing Our World Simon amp Schuster1994 Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch A Story of Evolution in Our Time Alfred A Knopf1995 Edward O Wilson Naturalist Island Press1996 Carl Sagan The Demon Haunted World Science as a Candle in the Dark Random House1997 Steven Pinker How the Mind Works W W Norton amp Company1998 Douglas Starr Blood An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Alfred A Knopf1999 Dava Sobel Galileo s Daughter A Historical Memoir of Science Faith and Love Walker and Company2000 James Le Fanu M D The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine Carroll amp Graf2001 Richard Hamblyn The Invention of Clouds How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies Farrar Straus and Giroux2002 Brenda Maddox Rosalind Franklin The Dark Lady of DNA HarperCollins2003 Philip J Hilts Protecting America s Health The FDA Business and One Hundred Years of Regulation Alfred A Knopf2004 Charles Wohlforth The Whale and the Supercomputer On the Northern Front of Climate Change North Point Press Farrar Straus and Giroux2005 Diana Preston Before the Fallout From Marie Curie to Hiroshima Walker amp Company2006 Eric R Kandel In Search of Memory The Emergence of a New Science of Mind W W Norton amp Company2007 Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop Basic Books2008 Leonard Susskind The Black Hole War My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics Little Brown and Company2009 Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac Mystic of the Atom Basic Books Perseus Book Group2010 Oren Harman The Price of Altruism George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness W W Norton amp Company2011 Sylvia Nasar Grand Pursuit The Story of Economic Genius Simon amp Schuster2012 Florence Williams Breasts A Natural and Unnatural History W W Norton amp Company2013 Alan Weisman Countdown Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth Little Brown and Company2014 Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History Henry Holt amp Co2015 Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature Alexander von Humboldt s New World Alfred A Knopf2016 Luke Dittrich Patient H M A Story of Memory Madness and Family Secrets Random House2017 Robert Sapolsky Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Penguin Books2018 Beth Macy Dopesick Dealers Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America Little Brown and Company2019 Maria Popova Figuring Pantheon 12 2020 Sara Seager The Smallest Lights in the Universe A Memoir Crown 6 2021 Chanda Prescod Weinstein The Disordered Cosmos A Journey into Dark Matter Spacetime and Dreams Deferred Bold Type Books 9 2022 Sabrina Imbler How Far the Light Reaches A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Little Brown and Company 10 Poetry edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 1980 Robert Kelly Kill the Messenger Black Sparrow1981 Ntozake Shange Three Pieces St Martin s Press1982 Allen Ginsberg Plutonian Ode and Other Poems 1977 1980 City Lights1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Atheneum1984 Charles Olson The Maximus Poems University of California Press1985 X J Kennedy Cross Ties University of Georgia Press1986 Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948 1984 Farrar Straus and Giroux1987 William Meredith Partial Accounts New and Selected Poems Alfred A Knopf1988 Richard Wilbur New and Collected Poems Harcourt Brace Jovanovich1989 Donald Hall The One Day A Poem in Three Parts Ticknor amp Fields Houghton Mifflin Harcourt1990 John Caddy The Color of Mesabi Bones Milkweed1991 Philip Levine What Work Is Alfred A Knopf1992 Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World Poems 1988 1991 W W Norton amp Company1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria University of Illinois Press1994 Carolyn Forche The Angel of History HarperCollins1995 Robert Pinsky The Inferno of Dante Farrar Straus and Giroux1996 Alan Shapiro Mixed Company The University of Chicago Press1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac Farrar Straus and Giroux1998 Alice Notley Mysteries of Small Houses Penguin Press1999 C K Williams Repair Poems Farrar Straus and Giroux2000 Gjertrud Schnackenberg The Throne of Labdacus Farrar Straus and Giroux2001 Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos Alfred A Knopf2002 Cynthia Zarin The Watercourse Poems Alfred A Knopf2003 Anthony Hecht Collected Later Poems Alfred A Knopf2004 Richard Howard Inner Voices Selected Poems 1963 2003 Farrar Straus and Giroux2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven Poems Alfred A Knopf2006 Frederick Seidel Ooga Booga Farrar Straus and Giroux2007 Stanley Plumly Old Heart Poems W W Norton amp Company2008 Frank Bidart Watching the Spring Festival Poems Farrar Straus and Giroux2009 Brenda Hillman Practical Water Wesleyan University Press2010 Maxine Kumin Where I Live New amp Selected Poems 1990 2010 W W Norton amp Company2011 Carl Phillips Double Shadow Poems Farrar Straus and Giroux2012 Louise Gluck Poems 1962 2012 Farrar Straus and Giroux2013 Ron Padgett Collected Poems Coffee House Press2014 Claudia Rankine Citizen An American Lyric Graywolf Press2015 Jorie Graham From the New World Poems 1976 2014 Ecco HarperCollins2016 Rosmarie Waldrop Gap Gardening Selected Poems New Directions2017 Patricia Smith Incendiary Art Poems TriQuarterly Northwestern University Press 14 2018 Carl Phillips Wild is the Wind Poems Farrar Straus and Giroux2019 Ilya Kaminsky Deaf Republic Poems Graywolf Press 12 2020 Victoria Chang Obit 6 2021 Diane Seuss frank sonnets Graywolf Press 9 2022 Dionne Brand Nomenclature New and Collected Poems Duke University Press 10 Young adult literature edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 1998 Joan Bauer Rules of the Road G P Putnam s Sons1999 Robert Cormier Frenchtown Summer Delacorte Press2000 Jacqueline Woodson Miracle s Boys G P Putnam s Son2001 Mildred D Taylor The Land Phyllis Fogelman Books G P Putnam s Sons2002 M T Anderson Feed Candlewick Press2003 Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light Harcourt Children s Books2004 Melvin Burgess Doing It Henry Holt Books for Young Readers2005 Per Nilsson with Tara Chace trans You amp You amp You Front Street Boyds Mills Press2006 Coe Booth Tyrell Push Scholastic2007 Philip Reeve A Darkling Plain Scholastic2008 Terry Pratchett Nation HarperCollins2009 Elizabeth Partridge Marching for Freedom Walk Together Children and Don t You Grow Weary Viking Children s Books Penguin Group2010 Megan Whalen Turner A Conspiracy of Kings Greenwillow HarperCollins2011 Pete Hautman The Big Crunch Scholastic2012 A S King Ask the Passengers Little Brown and Company2013 Gene Yang Boxers and Saints First Second Macmillan2014 Candace Fleming The Family Romanov Murder Rebellion and the Fall of Imperial Russia Schwartz amp Wade Random House Children s2015 Marilyn Nelson My Seneca Village Namelos2016 Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree Harry N Abrams2017 Jason Reynolds Long Way Down2018 Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X HarperTeen2019 Malla Nunn When the Ground is Hard G P Putnam 15 2020 Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi Punching the Air Balzer Bray 6 2021 Rita Williams Garcia A Sitting in St James Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Children s Books 9 The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction edit Main article Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction winners Year Author Title Publisher1991 David Wong Louie Pangs of Love Alfred A Knopf1992 Darryl Pinckney High Cotton Farrar Straus and Giroux1993 Paul Kafka Love Houghton Mifflin1994 Martin M Simecka The Year of the Frog Louisiana State University Press1995 Mark Merlis American Studies Houghton Mifflin1996 Mark Behr The Smell of Apples St Martin s Press1997 Carolyn Ferrell Don t Erase Me Stories Houghton Mifflin1998 C S Godshalk Kalimantaan Henry Holt1999 Elizabeth Strout Amy and Isabelle Random House2000 Pankaj Mishra The Romantics Random House2001 Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room Pantheon Books2002 Arthur Phillips Prague Random House2003 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Doubleday2004 Lorraine Adams Harbor Alfred A Knopf2005 Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation HarperCollins2006 Alice Greenway White Ghost Girls Black Cat Grove Atlantic2007 Dinaw Mengestu The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Riverhead2008 Zoe Ferraris Finding Nouf Houghton Mifflin Harcourt2009 Philipp Meyer American Rust Spiegel amp Grau2010 Peter Bognanni The House of Tomorrow Amy Einhorn Books G P Putnam s Sons2011 Ismet Prcic Shards Black Cat Grove Atlantic2012 Maggie Shipstead Seating Arrangements Alfred A Knopf2013 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names Reagan Arthur Books2014 Valeria Luiselli with Christina MacSweeney trans Faces in the Crowd Coffee House Press2015 Chigozie Obioma The Fisherman Little Brown and Company2016 Nathan Hill The Nix Alfred A Knopf2017 Jenny Zhang Sour Heart Random House2018 Nafissa Thompson Spires Heads of the Colored People Atria 37 Ink2019 Namwali Serpell The Old Drift Hogarth Press2020 Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies West Virginia University Press 6 2021 Jackie Polzin Brood Doubleday 9 Graphic Novel Comics edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel Comics Los Angeles Book Prize for Graphic Novel winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 2009 David Mazzucchelli Asterios Polyp Pantheon2010 Adam Hines Duncan the Wonder Dog Show One AdHouse Books2011 Carla Speed McNeil Finder Voice Dark Horse2012 Sammy Harkham Everything Together Collected Stories PictureBox2013 Ulli Lust Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life Fantagraphics2014 Jaime Hernandez The Love Bunglers Fantagraphics2015 Riad Sattouf Arab of the Future A Childhood in the Middle East 1978 1984 Metropolitan Books2016 Nick Drnaso Beverly Drawn amp Quarterly2017 Leslie Stein Present Drawn amp Quarterly2018 Tillie Walden On A Sunbeam First Second Books2019 Eleanor Davis The Hard Tomorrow Drawn amp Quarterly2020 Bishakh Kumar Som Apsara Engine 6 2021 R Kikuo Johnson No One Else Fantagraphics 9 The Robert Kirsch Award edit The Robert Kirsch Award winners Year Author Ref 1980 Wallace Stegner1981 Wright Morris1982 Ross Macdonald1983 M F K Fisher1984 Christopher Isherwood1985 Janet Lewis1986 Kay Boyle1987 Paul Horgan1988 Thom Gunn1989 Karl Shapiro1990 Czeslaw Milosz1991 Ken Kesey1992 Diane Johnson1993 Carolyn See1994 Brian Moore1995 Stephen J Pyne1996 Gary Snyder1997 Ray Bradbury1998 John Sanford1999 Ursula K Le Guin2000 Lawrence Ferlinghetti2001 Tillie Olsen2002 Larry McMurtry2003 Ishmael Reed2004 Tony Hillerman2005 Joan Didion2006 William Kittredge2007 Maxine Hong Kingston2008 Robert Alter2009 Evan S Connell2010 Beverly Cleary2011 Rudolfo Anaya2012 Kevin Starr2013 Susan Straight2014 TC Boyle2015 Juan Felipe Herrera2016 Thomas McGuane2017 John Rechy2018 Terry Tempest Williams2019 Walter Mosley 12 2020 Leslie Marmon Silko2021 Luis J Rodriguez 9 2022 James Ellroy 10 Innovator s Award edit Innovator s Award winners Year Author Ref 2009 Dave Eggers2010 Powell s Books bookstore2011 Figment self publishing platform2012 Margaret Atwood2013 John Green2014 LeVar Burton2015 James Patterson2016 Rueben Martinez2017 Glory Edim2018 Library of America2019 WriteGirl 12 2020 Book Industry Charitable Foundation 6 2021 Reginald Dwayne Betts 9 2022 Freedom to Read Foundation 10 The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose edit The Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose has been awarded in partnership with the Christopher Isherwood Foundation since April 2017 for 2016 16 The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 2016 Wesley Lowery They Can t Kill Us All Ferguson Baltimore and a New Era in America s Racial Justice Movement 16 2017 Benjamin Taylor The Hue and Cry at Our House A Year Remembered 16 2018 Kiese Laymon Heavy An American Memoir 16 2019 Emily Bernard Black is the Body Stories from My Grandmother s Time My Mother s Time and Mine 12 16 2020 Andrew O Hagan Mayflies 6 16 2021 Deborah Levy Real Estate A Living Autobiography Bloomsbury 9 2022 Javier Zamora Solito A Memoir Hogarth Press 10 The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science Fiction Fantasy amp Speculative Fiction edit The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction Fantasy amp Speculative Fiction winners Year Author Title Publisher Ref 2019 Marlon James Black Leopard Red Wolf 17 2020 Stephen Graham Jones The Only Good Indians 6 2021 Zen Cho Spirits Abroad Stories Small Beer 9 References edit BookPrizes About Festival of Books The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Archived from the original on 2020 10 13 Retrieved 2020 11 05 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize David W Blight Retrieved 2022 02 28 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced Los Angeles Times 2020 07 13 Retrieved 2022 08 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