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

2011

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

2010

• Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption (Random House)

2009

• Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (W.W. Norton & Co.)

2008

• Paula J. Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (Amistad/HarperCollins)

2007

• Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006

• Neal Gabler, The Triumph of the American Imagination (Alfred A. Knopf)

2005

• Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 (Alfred A. Knopf)

2004

• de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf)

2003

• American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith (University of California Press)

2002

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3 by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf)

2001

• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (Random House)

2000

• Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr. (Alfred A. Knopf)

1999

• Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman (Alfred A. Knopf)

1998

• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

1997

• Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House)

1996

• Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner)

1995

• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing (HarperCollins)

1994

• Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Doubleday)

1993

• Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher (Henry Holt)

1992

• Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1993 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Viking)

1991

• Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T.H. Watkins (Henry Holt)

1990

• A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward (Harper & Row)

1989

• This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press)

1988

• Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox (Houghton Mifflin)

1987

• Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn (Simon & Schuster)

1986

• Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (W.W. Norton)

1985

• Solzhenitsyn by Michael Scammell (W.W. Norton)

1984

• The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1983

• The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour Hersh (Summit Books)

1982

• Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen (Viking)

1981

• Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)

1980

• [Biography award concurrent with this year's History award]

2011

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

2010

• Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton & Company)

2009

• Dave Eggers, Zeitoun (McSweeney’s Books)

2008

• Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (The Penguin Press)

2007

• Elizabeth D. Samet, Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2006

• Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (Penguin Press)

2005

• Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War (Henry Holt)

2004

• Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

2003

• The New Chinese Empire — And What It Means for the United States by Ross Terrill (Basic Books)

2002

• Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine (University of Minnesota Press)

2001

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company)

2000

• Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)

1999

• Sidewalk (with Photographs by Ovie Carter) by Mitchell Duneier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1998

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1997

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1996

• Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass (Alfred A. Knopf)

1995

• Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams (Dutton)

1994

• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)

1993

• Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry (The Free Press)

1992

• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (The Free Press)

1991

• Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process by E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Simon & Schuster)

1990

• Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison, Jr. (Viking)

1989

• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)

1988

• Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider (Simon & Schuster)

1987

• The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (W.W. Norton)

1986

• Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books)

1985

• Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton (University of California Press)

1984

• Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs (Random House)

1983

• Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1982

• The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (Alfred A. Knopf)

1981

• Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman (Alfred A. Knopf)

1980

• Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury (New York Times Books) [Winner of the General Award--no Current Interest Award this year]

2011

• Luminarium, Alex Shakar (SoHo Press)

2010

• Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)

2009

• Rafael Yglesias, A Happy Marriage (Scribner)

2008

• Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2007

• Andrew O’Hagan, Be Near Me (Harcourt)

2006

• A.B. Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem [translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin] (Harcourt)

2005

• Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores [translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman] (Alfred A. Knopf)

2004

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín (Scribner)

2003

• Train: A Novel by Pete Dexter (Doubleday)

2002

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)

2001

• Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison (Counterpoint)

2000

• Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means (Context Books)

1999

• Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri (Alfred A. Knopf)

1998

• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald [Translated from the German by Michael Hulse] (New Directions)

1997

• In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake (Avon Books)

1996

• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Alfred A. Knopf)

1995

• The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf)

1994

• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Pantheon Books)

1993

• Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins)

1992

• Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)

1991

• White People by Allan Gurganus (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990

• Lantern Slides by Edna O’Brien (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1989

• The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon (Viking)

1988

• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987

• Fools Crow by James Welch (Viking)

1986

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Houghton Mifflin)

1985

• Love Medicine by Louis Erdrich (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)

1984

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Harper & Row)

1983

• Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally (Simon & Schuster)

1982

• A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone (Alfred A. Knopf)

1981

• The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (Viking)

1980

• The Second Coming by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2011

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

2010

• Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)

2009

• Philipp Meyer, American Rust (Spiegel & Grau)

2008

• Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

2007

• Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead Books)

2006

• Alice Greenway, White Ghost Girls (Black Cat / Grove/Atlantic)

2005

• Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (HarperCollins)

2004

• Harbor by Lorraine Adams (Alfred A. Knopf)2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)

2002

• Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips (Random House)

2001

• The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (Pantheon Books)

2000

• The Romantics: A Novel by Pankaj Mishra (Random House)

1999

• Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

1998

• Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk (Henry Holt)

1997

• Don’t Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell (Houghton Mifflin)

1996

• The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr (St. Martin’s)

1995

• American Studies by Mark Merlis (Houghton Mifflin)

1994

• The Year of the Frog by Martin M. Šimecka (Louisiana State University Press)

1993

• Love <Enter> by Paul Kafka (Houghton Mifflin)

1992

• High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1991

• Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie (Alfred A. Knopf)

2011

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

2010

• Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (Adhouse Books)

2009

• David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp (Pantheon)

2011

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

2010

• Thomas Powers,The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf)

2009

• Kevin Starr, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950 – 1963 (Oxford University Press)

2008

• Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (The Penguin Press)

2007

• Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)

2006

• Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf)

2005

• Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Houghton Mifflin)

2004

• Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone (W.W. Norton & Company)

2003

• An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2002

• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (Oxford University Press)

2001

• Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (Hill and Wang Division, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2000

• The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (University of Chicago Press)

1999

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton)

1998

• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter (W.W. Norton)

1997

• A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes (Viking)

1996

• Black Sea by Neal Ascherson (Hill & Wang)

1995

• Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America by Jackson Lears (Basic Books)

1994

• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (Basic Books)

1993

• New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton (Harvard University Press)

1992

• Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism by Alexander Stille (Summit)

1991

• The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990

• The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989

• An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler (Crown Books)

1988

• Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (Harper & Row)

1987

• [No award in 1987]

1986

• The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within by Geoffrey Hosking (Harvard University Press)

1985

• Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell (North Point Press)

1984

• The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton (Basic Books)

1983

• The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel (Harper & Row)

1982

• The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence (Viking)

1981

• Land of Savagery/Land of Promise by Ray Allen Billington (W.W. Norton)

1980

• Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (Atlantic/ Little Brown)

2011

• 11/22/1963, Stephen King (Scribner)

2010

• Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow)

2009

• Stuart Neville, The Ghosts of Belfast (SOHO Press)

2008

• Michael Koryta, Envy the Night (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur)

2007

• Karin Fossum {Translated by Charlotte Barslund} The Indian Bride (Harcourt)

2006

• Michael Connelly, Echo Park: A Novel (Little, Brown)

2005

• Robert Littell, Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation (Overlook Press)

2004

• Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn (Scribner)

2003

• Soul Circus: A Novel by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown)

2002

• Hell to Pay: A Novel by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown and Company)

2001

• Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion)

2000

• A Place of Execution: A Novel by Val McDermid (St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur)

2011

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

2010

• Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (W. W. Norton & Company)

2009

• Brenda Hillman, Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press)

2008

• Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2007

• Stanley Plumly, Old Heart: Poems (W.W. Norton)

2006

• Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2005

• Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)

2004

• Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 by Richard Howard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2003

• Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht (Alfred A. Knopf)

2002

• The Watercourse: Poems by Cynthia Zarin (Alfred A. Knopf)

2001

• The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson (Alfred A. Knopf)

2000

• The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1999

• Repair: Poems by C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1998

• Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley (Penguin Books)

1997

• Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1996

• Mixed Company by Alan Shapiro (The University of Chicago Press)

1995

• The Inferno of Dante by Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1994

• The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché (HarperCollins)

1993

• My Alexandria by Mark Doty (University of Illinois Press)

1992

• An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)

1991

• What Work Is by Phillip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990

• The Color of Mesabi Bones by John Caddy (Milkweed)

1989

• The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald Hall (Ticknor & Fields/ Houghton Mifflin)

1988

• New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

1987

• Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)

1986

• Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1985

• Cross Ties by X.J. Kennedy (University of Georgia Press)

1984

• The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (University of California Press)

1983

• The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill (Atheneum)

1982

• Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg (City Lights)

1981

• Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange (St. Martin’s Press)

1980

• Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly (Black Sparrow)

2011

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

2010

• Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton & Company)

2009

• Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (Basic Books/Perseus Book Group)

2008

• Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Little, Brown and Co.)

2007

• Douglas Hofstadter, I Am A Strange Loop (Basic Books)

2006

• Eric R. Kandel, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (W.W. Norton)

2005

• Diana Preston, Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Walker & Company)

2004

• The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth (North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2003

• Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J. Hilts (Alfred A. Knopf)

2002

• Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox (HarperCollins Publishers)

2001

• The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2000

• The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu, M.D. (Carroll & Graf)

1999

• Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel (Walker and Company)

1998

• Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr (Alfred A. Knopf)

1997

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (W.W. Norton)

1996

• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Random House)

1995

• Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (Island Press)

1994

• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)

1993

• Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology — and How It Is Changing Our World by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger (Simon & Schuster)

1992

• The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond (HarperCollins)

1991

• The Truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev (Basic Books)

1990

• Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith (William Morrow)

1989

• Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal (Harvard University Press)

2011

• The Big Crunch, Pete Hautman (Scholastic Press)

2010

• Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)

2009

• Elizabeth Partridge, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary (Viking Children’s Books/Penguin Group)

2008

• Terry Pratchett, Nation (HarperCollins)

2007

• Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles) (Eos Books/HarperCollins)

2006

• Coe Booth, Tyrell (Push / Scholastic)

2005

• Per Nilsson, You & You & You [translated from the Swedish by Tara Chace] (Front Street/Boyds Mills Press)

2004

• Doing It by Melvin Burgess (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)

2003

• A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (Harcourt Children’s Books)

2002

• Feed by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press)

2001

• The Land by Mildred D. Taylor (Phyllis Fogelman Books, Penguin Putnam)

2000

• Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)

1999

• Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier (Delacorte Press)

1998

• Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

2011

• Rudolfo Anaya

2010

• Beverly Cleary

2009

• Evan S. Connell

2008

• Robert Alter

2007

• Maxine Hong Kingston

2006

• William Kittredge

2005

• Joan Didion

2004

• Tony Hillerman

2003

• Ishmael Reed

2002

• Larry McMurtry

2001

• Tillie Olsen

2000

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1999

• Ursula K. Le Guin

1998

• John Sanford

1997

• Ray Bradbury

1996

• Gary Snyder

1995

• Stephen J. Pyne

1994

• Brian Moore

1993

• Carolyn See

1992

• Diane Johnson

1991

• Ken Kesey

1990

• Czeslaw Milosz

1989

• Karl Shapiro

1988

• Thom Gunn

1987

• Paul Horgan

1986

• Kay Boyle

1985

• Janet Lewis

1984

• Christopher Isherwood

1983

• M.F.K. Fisher

1982

• Ross Macdonald

1981

• Wright Morris

1980

• Wallace Stegner

2011

• Figment

2010

• Powell’s Books, Portland, Oregon

2009

• Dave Eggers