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

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners, 1980-Present

Listed by Year

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2011

Biography >

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

Current Interest >

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

Fiction >

Winner: Luminarium, Alex Shakar (SoHo Press)

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction >

Winner: Shards, Ismet Prcic (Black Cat, Grove/Atlantic)

Graphic Novel >

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

History >

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

Mystery/Thriller >

Winner: 11/22/1963, Stephen King (Scribner)

Poetry >

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

Science & Technology >

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

Young Adult Literature >

Winner: The Big Crunch, Pete Hautman (Scholastic Press)

The Robert Kirsch Award >

Winner: Rudolfo Anaya

Innovator’s Award >

Winner: Figment

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