2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at UCLA's Royce Hall
BIOGRAPHY
Winner: Neil Smith, American
Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (University
of California Press)
CURRENT INTEREST
Winner: Ross Terrill, The
New Chinese Empire -- And What It Means for the United States (Basic
Books)
FICTION
Winner: Pete Dexter, Train:
A Novel (Doubleday)
FIRST
FICTION (The Art Seidenbaum Award)
Winner: Mark Haddon, The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Doubleday)
HISTORY
Winner: Henry Wiencek, An
Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Winner: George P.
Pelecanos, Soul Circus: A Novel (Little, Brown)
POETRY
Winner: Anthony
Hecht, Collected Later Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Winner: Philip J. Hilts, Protecting
America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation (Alfred
A. Knopf)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Winner: Jennifer
Donnelly, A Northern Light (Harcourt Children's Books)