The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced winners in eleven categories on Friday night. Next up is the Pulitzers, to be announced Monday afternoon at 3. The LAT winners include:
Fiction
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People (37 Ink)
Biography
David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster)
Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
Kiese Laymon, Heavy (Scribner)
Current Interest
Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead)
Graphic Novel/Comics
Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam (First Second)
History
Julia Boyd, Travelers In The Third Reich (Pegasus)
Mystery/Thriller
Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer (Doubleday)
Science & Technology
Beth Macy, Dopesick (Little, Brown)
Poetry
Carl Phillips, Wild is the Wind (Farrar, Straus)
Young Adult Literature
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X (Harper Teen)