The winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are:
Biography: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
Current interest: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (Norton)
Fiction: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Graphic novel: Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One by Adam Hines (Adhouse Books)
History: The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers (Knopf)
Mystery/thriller: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (William Morrow)
Poetry: Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin, (Norton)
Science and technology: The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman (Norton)
Young adult literature: A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
In addition, Beverly Cleary won the Robert Kirsch Award lifetime achievement award, and Powell’s Books, Portland, Ore., won the Innovator's Award.
The awards were announced during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held this past weekend. You can see the finalists and other information here.
Biography: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
Current interest: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (Norton)
Fiction: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Graphic novel: Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One by Adam Hines (Adhouse Books)
History: The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers (Knopf)
Mystery/thriller: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (William Morrow)
Poetry: Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin, (Norton)
Science and technology: The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman (Norton)
Young adult literature: A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
In addition, Beverly Cleary won the Robert Kirsch Award lifetime achievement award, and Powell’s Books, Portland, Ore., won the Innovator's Award.
The awards were announced during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held this past weekend. You can see the finalists and other information here.