1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House)
CURRENT INTEREST
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)
FICTION
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake (Avon Books)
HISTORY
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by
Orlando Figes (Viking)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (W.W. Norton)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
[Award added in 1998]
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
Don't Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell (Houghton Mifflin)
THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Ray Bradbury