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Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes "currently have nine single-title categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). In addition, the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition" [1].

The Book Prize program was founded by the late Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985; an award named after him was added a year after his death in 1990. The Robert Kirsch Award is named after the longtime Times book critic who died in 1980. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though English does not have to be the original language of the work. The author of each winning book and the Kirsch Award recipient receives a citation and $1,000.

Contents

Biography

Current interest

  • 2008: Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman (The Penguin Press)
  • 2007: Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • 2006: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
  • 2005: Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, by Anthony Shadid (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]

Fiction

History

Mystery/thriller

Science and technology

  • 2008: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind (Little Brown and Co.)
  • 2007: I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter (Basic Books)
  • 2006: In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (W.W. Norton)
  • 2005: Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston (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)
  • 1988: [Award added in 1989]

Poetry

Young adult fiction

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

The Robert Kirsch Award

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.latimes.com/extras/bookprizes/index.html Los Angeles Times Book Prizes home page

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