At the LAT Festival of Books, the paper awarded its annual book prizes: BiographyLinda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (Norton) Current InterestDave Eggers, Zeitoun (McSweeney’s Books) FictionRafael Yglesias, A Happy Marriage (Scribner) Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionPhilipp Meyer, American Rust (Spiegel & Grau) Graphic NovelDavid Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp (Pantheon) HistoryKevin Starr, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950 – 1963 (Oxford University Press) Mystery / ThrillerStuart Neville, The Ghosts of Belfast (Soho Press) PoetryBrenda Hillman, Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press) Science & TechnologyGraham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of […]
