Los Angeles Times Book Prize Explained

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.

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

See main article: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1991Pangs of LoveAlfred A. Knopf
1992High CottonFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1993LoveHoughton Mifflin
1994The Year of the FrogLouisiana State University Press
1995American StudiesHoughton Mifflin
1996The Smell of ApplesSt. Martin's Press
1997Don't Erase Me: StoriesHoughton Mifflin
1998KalimantaanHenry Holt
1999Amy and IsabelleRandom House
2000The RomanticsRandom House
2001The Dark RoomPantheon Books
2002PragueRandom House
2003The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeDoubleday
2004HarborAlfred A. Knopf
2005Beasts of No NationHarperCollins[2]
2006White Ghost GirlsBlack Cat / Grove/Atlantic[3]
2007The Beautiful Things That Heaven BearsRiverhead
2008Finding NoufHoughton Mifflin Harcourt[4]
2009American RustSpiegel & Grau[5]
2010The House of TomorrowAmy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons[6]
2011ShardsBlack Cat / Grove/Atlantic[7]
2012Seating ArrangementsAlfred A. Knopf[8]
2013We Need New NamesReagan Arthur Books[9]
2014 with Christina MacSweeney (trans.)Faces in the CrowdCoffee House Press[10]
2015The FishermanLittle, Brown and Company[11]
2016The NixAlfred A. Knopf[12]
2017Sour HeartRandom House[13]
2018Heads of the Colored PeopleAtria/37 Ink[14]
2019The Old DriftHogarth Press[15]
2020The Secret Lives of Church LadiesWest Virginia University Press[16]
2021BroodDoubleday[17] [18]
2022Hodder & Stoughton[19] [20]
2023Company: Stories[21]

Biography

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1981Mornings on HorsebackSimon & Schuster
1982Waldo Emerson: A BiographyViking
1983The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White HouseSummit Books
1984The Nightmare of ReasonFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1985SolzhenitsynW.W. Norton & Company
1986Alexander Pope: A LifeW.W. Norton & Company
1987HemingwaySimon & Schuster
1988Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
1989This Boy's Life: A MemoirAtlantic Monthly Press
1990A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltHarper & Row
1991Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952Henry Holt
1992Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884–1933Viking
1993Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American PioneerHenry Holt
1994Shot in the HeartDoubleday
1995HarperCollins
1996Angela's Ashes: A MemoirScribner
1997Whittaker Chambers: A BiographyRandom House
1998LindberghG.P. Putnam's Sons
1999Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteAlfred A. Knopf
2000Jefferson Davis, AmericanAlfred A. Knopf
2001Theodore RexRandom House[22]
2002Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3Alfred A. Knopf
2003American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to GlobalizationUniversity of California Press
2004 and Annalyn SwanAlfred A. Knopf
2005Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909–1954Alfred A. Knopf
2006Alfred A. Knopf
2007Young StalinAlfred A. Knopf
2008Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against LynchingAmistad/HarperCollins
2009Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond LimitsW.W. Norton & Company
2010Random House
2011Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the DamnedDoubleday
2012Alfred A. Knopf
2013Bolivar: American LiberatorSimon & Schuster
2014Napoleon: A LifeViking
2015Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu NoguchiFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2016 with Jefferson Chase (trans.)Alfred A. Knopf
2017Henry David Thoreau: A LifeUniversity of Chicago Press
2018Simon & Schuster[23]
2019Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American CenturyAlfred A. Knopf[24] [25]
2020W.W. Norton & Company[26]
2021Henry Holt & Company
2022Viking Press[27]
2023Ecco/HarperCollins[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]

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
2016"They Can't Kill Us All": Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice MovementLittle, Brown and Company
2017Penguin Books
2018Scribner Book Company
2019Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and MineAlfred A. Knopf
2020Mayflies
2021Real Estate: A Living AutobiographyBloomsbury
2022Solito: A Memoir.Hogarth Press
2023Monsters: A Fan’s DilemmaAlfred A. Knopf

Current interest

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1980Without Fear or FavorNew York Times Books
1981Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a NumberAlfred A. Knopf
1982Alfred A. Knopf
1983Lost in the CosmosFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1984Cities and the Wealth of NationsRandom House
1985,, William M. Sullivan, and Steven M. Tipton Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeUniversity of California Press
1986Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteTimes Books
1987W.W. Norton & Company
1988Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the CountrySimon & Schuster
1989Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963Simon & Schuster
1990Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth CenturyViking
1991Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic ProcessSimon & Schuster
1992The Free Press
1993Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityThe Free Press
1994DiplomacySimon & Schuster
1995Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was BlackDutton
1996Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of WarAlfred A. Knopf
1997Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1998We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from RwandaFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1999 with Ovie Carter (photographer)SidewalkFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2000Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarSimon & Schuster
2001Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in AmericaMetropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company
2002Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from SexUniversity of Minnesota Press
2003Basic Books[31]
2004Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American WarG.P. Putnam's Sons
2005Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's WarHenry Holt
2006Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of TolerancePenguin Press
2007Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West PointFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2008Penguin Press
2009ZeitounMcSweeney's Books
2010W. W. Norton & Company
2011Thinking, Fast and SlowFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2012Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityRandom House
2013Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalCrown
2014Scribner
2015Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global SecurityW.W. Norton and Company
2016 with Bela Shayevich (trans.)Random House
2017Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for AmericaViking Press
2018Riverhead Books
2019Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass IncarcerationRandom House
2020Random House
2021Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still CouldRandom House
2022Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save AmericaPenguin Press
2023We Were Once A Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in AmericaFarrar, Straus and Giroux

Fiction

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1980The Second ComingFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1981The White HotelViking
1982A Flag for SunriseAlfred A. Knopf
1983Schindler's ArkSimon & Schuster
1984The Unbearable Lightness of BeingHarper & Row
1985Love MedicineHolt, Rinehart and Winston
1986The Handmaid's Tale
1987Fools CrowViking
1988Love in the Time of CholeraAlfred A. Knopf
1989The Heart of the CountryViking
1990Lantern SlidesFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1991White PeopleAlfred A. Knopf
1992Maus II, A Survivor's Tale

And Here My Troubles Began

Pantheon Books
1993Pigs in HeavenHarperCollins
1994Remembering BabylonPantheon Books
1995The Blue AfternoonAlfred A. Knopf
1996A Fine BalanceAlfred A. Knopf
1997In the Rogue BloodAvon Books
1998 with Michael Hulse (trans.)The Rings of SaturnNew Directions
1999Freedom Song: Three NovelsAlfred A. Knopf
2000Assorted Fire EventsContext Books
2001Why Did I EverCounterpoint
2002AtonementNan A. Talese/Doubleday
2003TrainDoubleday
2004The MasterScribner
2005 with Edith Grossman (trans.)Memories of My Melancholy WhoresAlfred A. Knopf
2006 with Hillel Halkin (trans.)A Woman in JerusalemHarcourt
2007Be Near MeHarcourt
2008HomeFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2009A Happy MarriageScribner
2010A Visit from the Goon SquadAlfred A. Knopf
2011LuminariumSOHO Press
2012Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkHarperCollins Publishers / Ecco
2013A Tale for the Time BeingViking
2014Simon & Schuster
2015The Story of My TeethCoffee House Press
2016Imagine Me GoneLittle, Brown and Company
2017Exit WestRiverhead Books
2018The Great BelieversViking
2019The Topeka SchoolFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2020 with Anna Moschovakis (trans.)At Night All Blood Is BlackFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2021In the Company of MenDon Quichotte
2022 with Sean Cotter (trans.)SolenoidDeep Vellum
2023Same Bed Different DreamsRandom House

Graphic Novel/Comics

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
2009Asterios PolypPantheon
2010Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show OneAdHouse Books
2011Finder: VoiceDark Horse
2012Everything Together: Collected StoriesPictureBox
2013Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your LifeFantagraphics
2014Fantagraphics
2015Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978–1984Metropolitan Books
2016BeverlyDrawn & Quarterly
2017PresentDrawn & Quarterly
2018On A SunbeamFirst Second Books
2019Drawn & Quarterly
2020Apsara Engine
2021No One ElseFantagraphics
2022 and Robyn SmithWash Day Diaries
2023First Second Books

History

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1980Walter Lippmann and the American CenturyAtlantic/Little, Brown and Co.
1981Land of Savagery/Land of PromiseW.W. Norton & Company
1982The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980Viking
1983The Wheels of CommerceHarper & Row
1984The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryBasic Books
1985Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little BighornNorth Point Press
1986The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from WithinHarvard University Press
1987[32]
1988Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877Harper & Row
1989An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented HollywoodCrown
1990The Quest for El CidAlfred A. Knopf
1991The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaAlfred A. Knopf
1992Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under FascismSummit
1993New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of DiscoveryHarvard University Press
1994Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940Basic Books
1995Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in AmericaBasic Books
1996Black SeaHill & Wang
1997Viking
1998The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityW.W. Norton & Company
1999W.W. Norton & Company
2000The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert BrasillachUniversity of Chicago Press
2001Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American ConsensusHill and Wang Division/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2002Oxford University Press
2003An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of AmericaFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2004Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on TerrorismW.W. Norton & Company
2005
2006The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Alfred A. Knopf
2007Doubleday
2008Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled EuropePenguin Press
2009Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963Oxford University Press
2010The Killing of Crazy HorseAlfred A. Knopf
2011Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaW.W. Norton & Company
2012America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the UnionSimon & Schuster
2013The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914HarperCollins
2014The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931Viking
2015Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of IsraelW.W. Norton & Company
2016An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873Yale University Press
2017The Death and Life of the Great LakesW.W. Norton & Company
2018Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945Pegasus Books
2019They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthYale University Press
2020Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllBasic Books
2021Scribner
2022By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal ExecutionersW.W. Norton & Company
2023Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Mystery/thriller

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
2000A Place of ExecutionSt. Martin's Press/Minotaur
2001Silent JoeHyperion
2002Hell to PayLittle, Brown and Company
2003Soul CircusLittle, Brown and Company
2004Tijuana StraitsScribner
2005Legends: A Novel of DissimulationOverlook Press
2006Echo Park
2007 with Charlotte Barslund (trans.)The Indian BrideHarcourt
2008Envy the NightThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's /Minotaur
2009The Ghosts of BelfastSOHO Press
2010Crooked Letter, Crooked LetterWilliam Morrow and Co.
201111/22/63Scribner
2012Broken HarborViking
2013 (J. K. Rowling) The Cuckoo's CallingMulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
2014Dry Bones in the ValleyW.W. Norton and Company
2015The CartelAlfred A. Knopf
2016DodgersCrown
2017A Book of American MartyrsEcco
2018My Sister, the Serial KillerViking
2019Your House Will PayEcco
2020Blacktop WastelandFlatiron Books
2021The TurnoutG.P. Putnam’s Sons
2022Secret Identity: A NovelFlatiron Books
2023Sing Her DownFarrar, Straus and Giroux

Poetry

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1980Kill the MessengerBlack Sparrow
1981Three PiecesSt. Martin's Press
1982Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977–1980City Lights
1983The Changing Light at SandoverAtheneum
1984The Maximus PoemsUniversity of California Press
1985Cross TiesUniversity of Georgia Press
1986Collected Poems, 1948–1984Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1987Partial Accounts: New and Selected PoemsAlfred A. Knopf
1988New and Collected PoemsHarcourt Brace Jovanovich
1989The One Day: A Poem in Three PartsTicknor & Fields/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
1990The Color of Mesabi BonesMilkweed
1991What Work IsAlfred A. Knopf
1992An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991W.W. Norton & Company
1993My AlexandriaUniversity of Illinois Press
1994The Angel of HistoryHarperCollins
1995The Inferno of DanteFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1996Mixed CompanyThe University of Chicago Press
1997Black ZodiacFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1998Mysteries of Small HousesPenguin Press
1999Repair: PoemsFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2000The Throne of LabdacusFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2001Alfred A. Knopf
2002The Watercourse: PoemsAlfred A. Knopf
2003Collected Later PoemsAlfred A. Knopf
2004Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963–2003Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2005Refusing Heaven: PoemsAlfred A. Knopf
2006Ooga-BoogaFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2007Old Heart: PoemsW.W. Norton & Company
2008Watching the Spring Festival: PoemsFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2009Practical WaterWesleyan University Press
2010Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990–2010W.W. Norton & Company
2011Double Shadow: PoemsFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2012Poems 1962–2012Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013Collected PoemsCoffee House Press
2014Graywolf Press
2015From the New World: Poems 1976–2014Ecco/HarperCollins
2016Gap Gardening: Selected PoemsNew Directions
2017TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press[33]
2018Wild is the Wind: PoemsFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2019Deaf Republic: PoemsGraywolf Press
2020Obit
2021Graywolf Press
2022Nomenclature: New and Collected PoemsDuke University Press
2023Bread and Circus: PoemsScribner

Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

See main article: Ray Bradbury Prize.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
2019Black Leopard, Red Wolf[34]
2020
2021Spirits Abroad: StoriesSmall Beer
2022Spear
2023Saga Press

Science and technology

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1989Peacemaking among PrimatesHarvard University Press
1990Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk VaccineWilliam Morrow and Co.
1991The Truth About ChernobylBasic Books
1992HarperCollins
1993 and Paul Freiberger Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our WorldSimon & Schuster
1994The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our TimeAlfred A. Knopf
1995NaturalistIsland Press
1996Random House
1997How the Mind WorksW.W. Norton & Company
1998Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceAlfred A. Knopf
1999Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and LoveWalker and Company
2000, M.D. The Rise and Fall of Modern MedicineCarroll & Graf
2001The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2002HarperCollins
2003Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of RegulationAlfred A. Knopf
2004The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeNorth Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2005Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaWalker & Company
2006In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of MindW.W. Norton & Company
2007I Am a Strange LoopBasic Books
2008Little, Brown and Company
2009Basic Books/Perseus Book Group
2010The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of KindnessW.W. Norton & Company
2011Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSimon & Schuster
2012Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural HistoryW.W. Norton & Company
2013Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?Little, Brown and Company
2014Henry Holt & Co
2015Alfred A. Knopf
2016Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family SecretsRandom House
2017Penguin Books
2018Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted AmericaLittle, Brown and Company
2019FiguringPantheon
2020The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A MemoirCrown
2021The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams DeferredBold Type Books
2022How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea CreaturesLittle, Brown and Company
2023Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us To Mathematics’ Deepest Truths.

Young adult literature

See main article: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel.

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTitlePublisher
1998Rules of the RoadG.P. Putnam's Sons
1999Frenchtown SummerDelacorte Press
2000Miracle's BoysG.P. Putnam's Son
2001The LandPhyllis Fogelman Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons
2002FeedCandlewick Press
2003A Northern LightHarcourt Children's Books
2004Doing ItHenry Holt Books for Young Readers
2005 with Tara Chace (trans.)You & You & YouFront Street/Boyds Mills Press
2006TyrellPush / Scholastic
2007A Darkling PlainScholastic
2008NationHarperCollins
2009Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow WearyViking Children's Books/Penguin Group
2010A Conspiracy of KingsGreenwillow/HarperCollins
2011Scholastic
2012Ask the PassengersLittle, Brown and Company
2013Boxers and SaintsFirst Second/Macmillan
2014The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial RussiaSchwartz & Wade/Random House Children's
2015My Seneca VillageNamelos
2016The Lie TreeHarry N. Abrams
2017Long Way Down
2018The Poet XHarperTeen
2019When the Ground is HardG.P. Putnam[35]
2020 and Ibi ZoboiPunching the AirBalzer + Bray
2021Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins Children’s Books
2022Torch
2023Gone WolfFeiwel & Friends

Innovator's Award

Year! scope="col"
Author
2009
2010Powell's Books, bookstore
2011Figment, self-publishing platform
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018Library of America
2019WriteGirl
2020Book Industry Charitable Foundation
2021
2022Freedom to Read Foundation

Robert Kirsch Award

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BookPrizes About - Festival of Books. 2020-11-05. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. https://web.archive.org/web/20201013204650/https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes-about/. 2020-10-13. live.
  2. Web site: 2006-05-02 . Award: The Los Angeles Times Book Awards . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022602/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=201 . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  3. Web site: 2007-04-30 . Awards: The Edgars; L.A. Times; Yale Drama Series . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022603/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=426 . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  4. Web site: 2009-04-27 . Awards: Los Angeles Times; Nebulas; Minnesota . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220719231931/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=909 . 2022-07-19 . 2022-03-13 . Shelf Awareness.
  5. Web site: 2010-04-26 . Awards: L.A. Times Book Winners; Carnegie Medal Shortlist . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221027160943/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1171 . 2022-10-27 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  6. Web site: 2011-05-02 . Awards: L.A. Times Book Prizes; BTBA; Triangle . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220316192018/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1453 . 2022-03-16 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  7. Web site: 2012-04-23 . Awards: First Chautauqua Prize Winner; L.A. TImes Book Prizes . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022601/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1722 . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  8. Web site: 2013-04-22 . Awards: Los Angeles Times; Chautauqua; Thomas Wolfe . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022551/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1976 . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-13 . Shelf Awareness.
  9. Web site: 2013-04-22 . Awards: Los Angeles Times; Chautauqua; Thomas Wolfe . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022551/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1976 . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-13 . Shelf Awareness.
  10. Web site: 2017-04-24 . Awards: Los Angeles Times Winners; Chautauqua Finalists; Jackson Poetry . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022603/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2986 . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  11. Web site: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210302143627/https://www.pw.org/category/theater_video_tags/art_seidenbaum_award_for_first_fiction . 2021-03-02 . 2022-03-16 . Poets & Writers . en.
  12. Web site: 2017-04-24 . Awards: Los Angeles Times Winners; Chautauqua Finalists; Jackson Poetry . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022603/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2986 . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  13. Web site: 2018-04-24 . Awards: L.A. Times Book; Green Earth Book . 2024-05-28 . . 2023-04-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230404215720/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3234 . live .
  14. Web site: 2019-04-16 . Awards: L.A. Times Book; Wolfson History . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220126034939/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 . 2022-01-26 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  15. Web site: 2020-04-20 . Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Winners . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220228212456/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3721 . 2022-02-28 . 2022-03-16 . Shelf Awareness.
  16. Web site: Book Prize Winners for 2020 . 2022-02-28 . Festival of Books . en-US . 2022-02-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220228185252/https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprize-winners-2020/ . live .
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