Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles Times | FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: April 30th - May 1, 2011 USC Campus

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners

• Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, John A. Farrell (Doubleday)

• Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

• Luminarium, Alex Shakar (SoHo Press)

• Shards, Ismet Prcic (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic)

• Finder: Voice, Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)

• Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Richard White (W.W. Norton & Company)

• 11/22/1963, Stephen King (Scribner)

• Double Shadow: Poems, Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

• Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster)

• The Big Crunch, Pete Hautman (Scholastic Press)

• Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya is the recipient of the annual Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. The New Mexico-born Anaya’s award-winning 1972 debut novel “Bless Me, Ultima” became the most widely read and critically acclaimed novel in the Chicano literary canon. It was followed by the sequels “Heart of Aztlan” and “Tortuga.” Anaya’s other works include “Albuquerque,” the Sonny Baca quartet of detective novels and a number of books for children and young adults. Anaya also served as a professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of English Language and Literature, and is a winner of the National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts.

• Figment, Co-Founded by Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear

Figment is a digital writing community with connections to – and roots in – traditional publishing, a space where young writers and readers are encouraged to share and comment on each other’s creativity, an early adaptor of the digital landscape as a publishing and literary territory, and a site in constant evolution, developing and expanding to meet both the needs of its users and its own digital imperatives. Figment is the third winner of the Innovator’s Award whose previous winners include Dave Eggers and Powell’s Books.