2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at UCLA's Royce Hall
BIOGRAPHY
Winner: Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, de
Kooning: An American Master (Alfred A. Knopf)
CURRENT INTEREST
Winner: Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil
Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War (G.P.
Putnam’s Sons)
FICTION
Winner: Colm Tóibín, The Master:
A Novel (Scribner)
FIRST FICTION (The Art Seidenbaum Award)
Winner: Lorraine Adams, Harbor (Alfred
A. Knopf)
HISTORY
Winner: Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times:
Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W.W.
Norton & Company)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Winner: Kem Nunn, Tijuana Straits: A Novel (Scribner)
POETRY
Winner: Richard Howard, Inner Voices:
Selected Poems, 1963-2003 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Winner: Charles Wohlforth, The Whale and the
Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (North Point
Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Winner: Melvin Burgess, Doing It (Henry
Holt Books for Young Readers)