LA Times Book Awards
LA Times Festival of the Book occurred this past weekend in LA. The AbeBooks staffers who were at the fair will probably talk about it in tomorrows blog posts but today, to tide you over, here are the winners of the LA Times Book Awards:
Fiction: Andrew O’Hagan - Be Near Me
Current Interest: Elizabeth D. Samet - Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Dinaw Mengestu - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Science & Technology: Douglas Hofstadter - I Am A Strange Loop
Young Adult Fiction: Philip Reeve - A Darkling Plain
Poetry: Stanley Plumly - Old Heart: Poems
Mystery/Thriller: Karin Fossum - The Indian Bride
History: Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Biography: Simon Sebag Montefiore - Young Stalin
