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American literary awards
David Eggers , double winner of the Book Prize in 2009Since 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.
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 $500. The prizes are presented the day before the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books .
Winners Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Biography Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography winnersYear Author Title Publisher Ref. 1981 David McCullough Mornings on Horseback Simon & Schuster 1982 Gay Wilson Allen Waldo Emerson: A Biography Viking 1983 Seymour Hersh The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House Summit Books 1984 Ernst Pawel The Nightmare of Reason Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1985 Michael Scammell Solzhenitsyn W.W. Norton & Company 1986 Maynard Mack Alexander Pope: A Life W.W. Norton & Company 1987 Kenneth S. Lynn Hemingway Simon & Schuster 1988 Brenda Maddox Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom Houghton Mifflin 1989 Tobias Wolff This Boy's Life: A Memoir Atlantic Monthly Press 1990 Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Harper & Row 1991 T. H. Watkins Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952 Henry Holt 1992 Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884–1933 Viking 1993 John Mack Faragher Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer Henry Holt 1994 Mikal Gilmore Shot in the Heart Doubleday 1995 Doris Lessing Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 HarperCollins 1996 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Scribner 1997 Sam Tanenhaus Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Random House 1998 A. Scott Berg Lindbergh G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999 Judith Thurman Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette Alfred A. Knopf 2000 William J. Cooper, Jr. Jefferson Davis, American Alfred A. Knopf 2001 Edmund Morris Theodore Rex Random House [22] 2002 Robert A. Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3 Alfred A. Knopf 2003 Neil Smith American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization University of California Press 2004 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan de Kooning: An American Master Alfred A. Knopf 2005 Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909–1954 Alfred A. Knopf [2] 2006 Neal Gabler Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination Alfred A. Knopf [3] 2007 Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin Alfred A. Knopf 2008 Paula J. Giddings Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Amistad /HarperCollins [4] 2009 Linda Gordon Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits W.W. Norton & Company [5] 2010 Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Random House [6] 2011 John A. Farrell Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned Doubleday [7] 2012 Robert A. Caro The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Alfred A. Knopf [8] 2013 Marie Arana Bolivar: American Liberator Simon & Schuster [9] 2014 Andrew Roberts Napoleon: A Life Viking [10] 2015 Hayden Herrera Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016 Volker Ullrich with Jefferson Chase (trans.)Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939 Alfred A. Knopf [12] 2017 Laura Walls Henry David Thoreau: A Life University of Chicago Press [13] 2018 David W. Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Simon & Schuster [14] [23] 2019 George Packer Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Alfred A. Knopf [15] [24] [25] 2020 William Souder Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck W.W. Norton & Company [16] [26] 2021 Paul Auster Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane Henry Holt & Company [17] [18] 2022 Beverly Gage G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Viking Press [27] [20] 2023 Gregg Hecimovich The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative Ecco/HarperCollins [21] [28] [29]
Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose 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).[30]
Current interest Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest winnersYear Author Title Publisher Ref. 1980 Harrison Salisbury Without Fear or Favor New York Times Books 1981 Jacobo Timerman Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number Alfred A. Knopf 1982 Jonathan Schell The Fate of the Earth Alfred A. Knopf 1983 Walker Percy Lost in the Cosmos Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1984 Jane Jacobs Cities and the Wealth of Nations Random House 1985 Robert N. Bellah , Richard Madsen , William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. TiptonHabits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life University of California Press 1986 Joseph Lelyveld Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White Times Books 1987 Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker W.W. Norton & Company 1988 William Greider Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country Simon & Schuster 1989 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 Simon & Schuster 1990 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century Viking 1991 E. J. Dionne, Jr. Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process Simon & Schuster 1992 Francis Fukuyama The End of History and the Last Man The Free Press 1993 Peter Skerry Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority The Free Press 1994 Henry Kissinger Diplomacy Simon & Schuster 1995 Gregory Howard Williams Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Dutton 1996 Peter Maass Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War Alfred A. Knopf 1997 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 Giroux 1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999 Mitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer)Sidewalk Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000 Frances FitzGerald Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War Simon & Schuster 2001 Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company [22] 2002 Judith Levine Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex University of Minnesota Press 2003 Ross Terrill The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States Basic Books [31] 2004 Evan Wright Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005 Anthony Shadid Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War Henry Holt [2] 2006 Ian Buruma Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance Penguin Press [3] 2007 Elizabeth D. Samet Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008 Barton Gellman Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency Penguin Press [4] 2009 Dave Eggers Zeitoun McSweeney's Books [5] 2010 Michael Lewis The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine W. W. Norton & Company [6] 2011 Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow Farrar, Straus and Giroux [7] 2012 Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Random House [8] 2013 Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Crown [9] 2014 Jeff Hobbs The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Scribner [10] 2015 Sarah Chayes Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security W.W. Norton and Company 2016 Svetlana Alexievich with Bela Shayevich (trans.)Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Random House [12] 2017 Nancy MacLean Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Viking Press [13] 2018 Francisco Cantu The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border Riverhead Books [14] 2019 Emily Bazelon Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration Random House [15] [25] 2020 Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Random House [26] 2021 Adam Schiff Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could Random House [17] [18] 2022 Dahlia Lithwick Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America Penguin Press [20] [27] 2023 Roxanna Asgarian We Were Once A Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America Farrar, Straus and Giroux [28] [29]
Fiction Graphic Novel/Comics History Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History winnersYear 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 & Company 1982 Jonathan D. Spence The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980 Viking 1983 Fernand Braudel The Wheels of Commerce Harper & Row 1984 Robert Darnton The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History Basic Books 1985 Evan S. Connell Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn North Point Press 1986 Geoffrey Hosking The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within Harvard University Press 1987 Robert Jay Lifton The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide [32] 1988 Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 Harper & Row 1989 Neal Gabler An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood Crown 1990 Richard Fletcher The Quest for El Cid Alfred A. Knopf 1991 Nicholas Lemann The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America Alfred A. Knopf 1992 Alexander Stille Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism Summit 1993 Anthony Grafton New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery Harvard University Press 1994 George Chauncey Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 Basic Books 1995 Jackson Lears Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America Basic Books 1996 Neal Ascherson Black Sea Hill & Wang 1997 Orlando Figes A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution Viking 1998 Roy Porter The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity W.W. Norton & Company 1999 John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II W.W. Norton & Company 2000 Alice Kaplan The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach University of Chicago Press 2001 Rick Perlstein Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Hill and Wang Division/Farrar, Straus and Giroux [22] 2002 Michael B. Oren Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Oxford University Press 2003 Henry Wiencek An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004 Geoffrey R. Stone Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism W.W. Norton & Company 2005 Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Houghton Mifflin [2] 2006 Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Alfred A. Knopf [3] 2007 Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Doubleday 2008 Mark Mazower Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe Penguin Press [4] 2009 Kevin Starr Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963 Oxford University Press [5] 2010 Thomas Powers The Killing of Crazy Horse Alfred A. Knopf [6] 2011 Richard White Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America W.W. Norton & Company [7] 2012 Fergus M. Bordewich America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union Simon & Schuster [8] 2013 Christopher Clark The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 HarperCollins [9] 2014 Adam Tooze The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 Viking [10] 2015 Dan Ephron Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel W.W. Norton & Company 2016 Benjamin Madley An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873 Yale University Press [12] 2017 Dan Egan The Death and Life of the Great Lakes W.W. Norton & Company [13] 2018 Julia Boyd Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945 Pegasus Books [14] 2019 Stephanie Jones-Rogers They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Yale University Press [15] 2020 Martha S. Jones Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Basic Books [26] 2021 Ada Ferrer Cuba: An American History Scribner [17] [18] 2022 Margaret A. Burnham By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners W.W. Norton & Company [20] 2023 Joya Chatterji Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century [28] [29]
Mystery/thriller Poetry Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry winnersYear Author Title Publisher Ref. 1980 Robert Kelly Kill the Messenger Black Sparrow 1981 Ntozake Shange Three Pieces St. Martin's Press 1982 Allen Ginsberg Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977–1980 City Lights 1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Atheneum 1984 Charles Olson The Maximus Poems University of California Press 1985 X.J. Kennedy Cross Ties University of Georgia Press 1986 Derek Walcott Collected Poems, 1948–1984 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987 William Meredith Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems Alfred A. Knopf 1988 Richard Wilbur New and Collected Poems Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989 Donald Hall The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts Ticknor & Fields/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1990 John Caddy The Color of Mesabi Bones Milkweed 1991 Philip Levine What Work Is Alfred A. Knopf 1992 Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 W.W. Norton & Company 1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria University of Illinois Press 1994 Carolyn Forché The Angel of History HarperCollins 1995 Robert Pinsky The Inferno of Dante Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1996 Alan Shapiro Mixed Company The University of Chicago Press 1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998 Alice Notley Mysteries of Small Houses Penguin Press 1999 C. K. Williams Repair: Poems Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000 Gjertrud Schnackenberg The Throne of Labdacus Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001 Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos Alfred A. Knopf [22] 2002 Cynthia Zarin The Watercourse: Poems Alfred A. Knopf 2003 Anthony Hecht Collected Later Poems Alfred A. Knopf 2004 Richard Howard Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963–2003 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven: Poems Alfred A. Knopf [2] 2006 Frederick Seidel Ooga-Booga Farrar, Straus and Giroux [3] 2007 Stanley Plumly Old Heart: Poems W.W. Norton & Company 2008 Frank Bidart Watching the Spring Festival: Poems Farrar, Straus and Giroux [4] 2009 Brenda Hillman Practical Water Wesleyan University Press [5] 2010 Maxine Kumin Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990–2010 W.W. Norton & Company [6] 2011 Carl Phillips Double Shadow: Poems Farrar, Straus and Giroux [7] 2012 Louise Glück Poems 1962–2012 Farrar, Straus and Giroux [8] 2013 Ron Padgett Collected Poems Coffee House Press [9] 2014 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric Graywolf Press [10] 2015 Jorie Graham From the New World: Poems 1976–2014 Ecco/HarperCollins 2016 Rosmarie Waldrop Gap Gardening: Selected Poems New Directions [12] 2017 Patricia Smith Incendiary Art: Poems TriQuarterly /Northwestern University Press [13] [33] 2018 Carl Phillips Wild is the Wind: Poems Farrar, Straus and Giroux [14] 2019 Ilya Kaminsky Deaf Republic: Poems Graywolf Press [15] [25] 2020 Victoria Chang Obit [26] 2021 Diane Seuss frank: sonnets Graywolf Press [17] [18] 2022 Dionne Brand Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems Duke University Press [27] [20] 2023 Airea D. Matthews Bread and Circus: Poems Scribner [21]
Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Science and technology Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology winnersYear Author Title Publisher Ref. 1989 Frans de Waal Peacemaking among Primates Harvard University Press 1990 Jane S. Smith Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine William Morrow and Co. 1991 Grigori Medvedev The Truth About Chernobyl Basic Books 1992 Jared Diamond The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal HarperCollins 1993 Daniel McNeill and Paul FreibergerFuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World Simon & Schuster 1994 Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Alfred A. Knopf 1995 Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Island Press 1996 Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Random House 1997 Steven Pinker How the Mind Works W.W. Norton & Company 1998 Douglas Starr Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Alfred A. Knopf 1999 Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Walker and Company 2000 James Le Fanu , M.D.The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine Carroll & Graf 2001 Richard Hamblyn The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies Farrar, Straus and Giroux [22] 2002 Brenda Maddox Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA HarperCollins 2003 Philip J. Hilts Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation Alfred A. Knopf 2004 Charles Wohlforth The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 Diana Preston Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima Walker & Company [2] 2006 Eric R. Kandel In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind W.W. Norton & Company [3] 2007 Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop Basic Books 2008 Leonard Susskind The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics Little, Brown and Company [4] 2009 Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom Basic Books /Perseus Book Group [5] 2010 Oren Harman The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness W.W. Norton & Company [6] 2011 Sylvia Nasar Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius Simon & Schuster [7] 2012 Florence Williams Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History W.W. Norton & Company [8] 2013 Alan Weisman Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Little, Brown and Company [9] 2014 Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Henry Holt & Co [10] 2015 Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Alfred A. Knopf 2016 Luke Dittrich Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets Random House [12] 2017 Robert Sapolsky Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Penguin Books [13] 2018 Beth Macy Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Little, Brown and Company [14] 2019 Maria Popova Figuring Pantheon [15] [25] 2020 Sara Seager The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir Crown [26] 2021 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred Bold Type Books [17] [18] 2022 Sabrina Imbler How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Little, Brown and Company [27] [20] 2023 Eugenia Cheng Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us To Mathematics’ Deepest Truths. [28] [29]
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