The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in eleven categories on Saturday night. The winners include: Fiction Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (Riverhead Books) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart (Lenny/Random House) Current Interest Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains (Viking) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Benjamin Taylor, The Hue and Cry at Our House (Penguin Books) YA Literature Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books) The rest of the winners included Laura Dassow Walls’s Henry David Thoreau (University of Chicago Press) for Biography; Leslie Stein’s Present (Drawn and Quarterly) for Graphic Novel/Comics; Dan Egan’s The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Norton); Joyce Carol Oates’s A Book of American […]