Celebrating "the literary voices who define what it means to be a
Southern Californian," the fifth annual Southern California Booksellers
Association Awards were presented on Saturday at the SCBA's authors
feast and trade show at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The author
or illustrator must live within the SCBA region; member booksellers
vote on the nominated titles. The winners:
Fiction
Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack (Delacorte). SCBA noted that Mack, a former attorney, is a Golden Globe award-winning film and television producer and Kaufman is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and a two-time winner of the national Penney-Missouri Journalism Award
Nonfiction
Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico by Tony Cohan (Broadway). "Cohan updates and expands his portrait of life in Mexico as he travels the country and records the extremes of politics, of geography, of wealth, of smells, and of colors that make up today's Mexico." He has also written On Mexican Time, Native State and the novels Opium and Canary.
Mystery
The Fallen by T. Jefferson Parker (Morrow). This is Parker's 13th novel and third SCBA Award winner. Last year he won the SCBA Mystery Award and Edgar Award for California Girl.
Children's Book
Snapshots: The Wonders of Monterey Bay by Celeste Davidson Mannis (Viking Juvenile). "Spare verse and full-color photographs introduce young readers to the Bay's marine animals, and the unique places they inhabit," the SCBA said. Among Mannis's other children's books are One Leaf Rides the Wind, Counting in a Japanese Garden and The Queen's Progress, An Elizabethan Alphabet.
Fiction
Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack (Delacorte). SCBA noted that Mack, a former attorney, is a Golden Globe award-winning film and television producer and Kaufman is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and a two-time winner of the national Penney-Missouri Journalism Award
Nonfiction
Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico by Tony Cohan (Broadway). "Cohan updates and expands his portrait of life in Mexico as he travels the country and records the extremes of politics, of geography, of wealth, of smells, and of colors that make up today's Mexico." He has also written On Mexican Time, Native State and the novels Opium and Canary.
Mystery
The Fallen by T. Jefferson Parker (Morrow). This is Parker's 13th novel and third SCBA Award winner. Last year he won the SCBA Mystery Award and Edgar Award for California Girl.
Children's Book
Snapshots: The Wonders of Monterey Bay by Celeste Davidson Mannis (Viking Juvenile). "Spare verse and full-color photographs introduce young readers to the Bay's marine animals, and the unique places they inhabit," the SCBA said. Among Mannis's other children's books are One Leaf Rides the Wind, Counting in a Japanese Garden and The Queen's Progress, An Elizabethan Alphabet.