Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners,
1980-2008

Biography >

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

Current Interest >

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

Fiction >

Winner:
Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction >

Winner:
Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

History >

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

Mystery/Thriller >

Winner:
Michael Koryta, Envy the Night
(Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur)

Poetry >

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

Science & Technology >

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

Young Adult Literature >

Winner:
Terry Pratchett, Nation (HarperCollins)

The Robert Kirsch Award >