2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners & Finalists

Biography

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3 by Robert A. Caro Winner
• The Country under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
• Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles
• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

Current Interest

• Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine Winner
• Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Ferris
• The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention by Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner
• Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips
• "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Fiction

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan Winner
• The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
• Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
• Moral Hazard: A Novel by Kate Jennings
• Tourmaline: A Novel by Joanna Scott

History

• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren Winner
• At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
• The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert Harms
• Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken
• In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton

Mystery / Thriller

• Hell to Pay: A Novel by George P. Pelecanos Winner
• The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
• Living Dead Girl: A Novel by Tod Goldberg
• One Step Behind [translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg] by Henning Mankell
• Reversible Errors by Scott Turow

Poetry

• The Watercourse: Poems by Cynthia Zarin Winner
• Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
• North Point North: New and Selected Poems by John Koethe
• Hazmat: Poems by J.D. McClatchy
• Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

Science and Technology

• Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox Winner
• Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by Deborah Blum
• Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale, the Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth by Judith Hooper
• Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
• The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston

Young Adult Fiction

• Feed by M.T. Anderson Winner
• Dillon Dillon by Kate Banks
• This Lullaby: A Novel by Sarah Dessen
• America: A Novel by E.R. Frank
• Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

• Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips Winner
• The Stars Can Wait: A Novel by Jay Basu
• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
• The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru

ARCHIVE

• An interview with Edmund Burke III, professor of history at the University of California at Santa Cruz, regarding the events of September 11, 2001
• Review of The Sibley Guide to Birds by Audubon Society Staff (Editor), Daved Allen Sibley (Illustrator)
• L.A. Noir: Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, and Walter Mosley
• Take a tour of the Cruddy Ring. This project is a joint effort by four independent bookstores to promote Linda Barry's new novel Cruddy.
• A dozen good books for the motivated cook
• New and Noteworthy Travel Books
• Take a look at the RumRing Page devoted to Hunter S. Thompson's newest novel Rum Diaries. The site is a joint project from four Northern California Independent Bookstores. Included in the webring is the prologue and Chapter one of Rum Diary, original manuscripts, photos, bibliographies, and a bulletin board.
• Read a review of Phillip Roth's I Married a Communist
• Read a review of Jim Harrison's The Road Home
• An interview with Barry Lopez
• A review of Ved Mehta's Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker
• Read a review of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love
• Interview with Ian McEwan
• The Elizabeth Wurtzel Page
  Includes an excerpt from her newest book, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, plus links, reviews, and suggestions for books to read by the women discussed in Bitch.
• Modern Library and Biography Reintroduce Exley's Fan's Notes
• The Book World's Significant Others
• List of writings on the Fifty States
• Interview with Laurie King, author of A Letter To Mary
• Read an interview with John Krakauer, or take a peek at sample chapters from Into the Wild and Eiger Dreams
• Interview with John Grisham, author of The Partner
• Read the first two chapters of John Grisham's most recent novel, The Partner
• Interview with Christopher Seymour, author of Yakuza Diary: Doing Time in the Japanese Underworld
• Interview with Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation
• Interview with Jamie Malanowski, co-author of Loose Lips : Real Words, Real People, Real Funny
• Interview with John Hechinger, Sr. and Pete Hamill, authors of Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection
• Pat Conroy Quiz

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