2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners & Finalists

BIOGRAPHY

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

Finalists:

	Gioconda Belli, The Country under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (Alfred A. Knopf) Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (Viking) T.J. Stiles, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf) Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Alfred A. Knopf)

CURRENT INTEREST

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

Finalists:

Timothy Ferris, Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril (Simon & Schuster) Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner (editors), The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention (Basic Books) Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (Broadway Books) Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books)

FICTION

Winner: Ian McEwan, Atonement: A Novel (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)

Finalists:

	Peter Cameron, The City of Your Final Destination (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) Kate Jennings, Moral Hazard: A Novel (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins) Joanna Scott, Tourmaline: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company)

HISTORY

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

Finalists:

Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House) Robert Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (Basic Books) Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt) Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (Alfred A. Knopf)

MYSTERY/THRILLER

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

Finalists:

	Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park (Alfred A. Knopf) Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl: A Novel (Soho Press) Henning Mankell, One Step Behind [translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg] (The New Press) Scott Turow, Reversible Errors (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

POETRY

Winner: Cynthia Zarin, The Watercourse: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)

Finalists:

	Terrance Hayes, Hip Logic (Penguin Books) John Koethe, North Point North: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins Publishers) J.D. McClatchy, Hazmat: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf) Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California Press)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Winner: Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (HarperCollins Publishers)

Finalists:

	Deborah Blum, Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection (Perseus Publishing) Judith Hooper, Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale, the Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth (W.W. Norton) Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History (Walker and Company) Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (Random House)

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Winner: M.T. Anderson, Feed (Candlewick Press)

Finalists:

	Kate Banks, Dillon Dillon (Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby: A Novel (Viking/Penguin Young Readers Group) E.R. Frank, America: A Novel (A Richard Jackson Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers) Joyce Carol Oates, Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (HarperTempest/HarperCollins)

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION

Winner: Arthur Phillips, Prague: A Novel (Random House)

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