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The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, established in 1980, recognize outstanding literary achievements in nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction commemorates the work of the late Times book editor and Book Prize program founder. 2002 (23rd annual) Biography Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3 by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) More information: Amazon.com Current Interest Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine (University of Minnesota Press) More information: Amazon.com Fiction Atonement by Ian McEwan (Doubleday) More information: Amazon.com History Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (Oxford University Press) More information: Amazon.com Mystery/Thriller Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos (Little Brown) More information: Amazon.com Poetry The Watercourse: Poems by Cynthia Zarin (Alfred A. Knopf) More information: Amazon.com Science and Technology Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox (HarperCollins Publishers) More information: Amazon.com Young Adult Fiction Feed by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press) More information: Amazon.com Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Prague by Arthur Phillips (Random House) More information: Amazon.com 2001 (22nd annual) Biography Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (Random House) More information: Amazon.com Current Interest Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt) More information: Amazon.com Fiction Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison (Counterpoint) More information: Amazon.com History Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) More information: Amazon.com Mystery/Thriller Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion) More information: Amazon.com Poetry The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson (Alfred A. Knopf) More information: Amazon.com Science and Technology The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) More information: Amazon.com Young Adult Fiction The Land by Mildred D. Taylor (Penguin Putnam) More information: Amazon.com Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (Pantheon Books) More information: Amazon.com 2000 (21st annual) Biography Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr. More information: Amazon.com Current Interest Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald More information: Amazon.com Fiction Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means More information: Amazon.com History The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan More information: Amazon.com Poetry The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg More information: Amazon.com Science and Technology The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu, M.D. More information: Amazon.com Young Adult Fiction Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson More information: Amazon.com Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction The Romantics: A Novel by Pankaj Mishra More information: Amazon.com 1999 (20th annual) Biography Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman More information: Amazon.com Current Interest Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier More information: Amazon.com Fiction Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri More information: Amazon.com History Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower More information: Amazon.com Poetry Repair: Poems by C.K. Williams More information: Amazon.com Science and Technology Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel More information: Amazon.com Young Adult Fiction Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier More information: Amazon.com Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout More information: Amazon.com 1998 (19th annual) Biography Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg More information: Amazon.com Current Interest We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch More information: Amazon.com Fiction The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald More information: Amazon.com History The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy S. Porter More information: Amazon.com Poetry Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley More information: Amazon.com Science and Technology Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr More information: Amazon.com Young Adult Fiction Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer More information: Amazon.com Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk More information: Amazon.com |