The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced on April 21.
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Aamina Ahmad, The Return of Faraz Ali: A Novel (Riverhead)
Biography
Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Viking)
Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
Javier Zamora, Solito (Hogarth)
Current Interest
Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America (Penguin Press)
Fiction
Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid (Deep Vellum)
Graphic Novel/Comics
Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith, Wash Day Diaries (Chronicle)
History
Margaret A. Burnham, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (Norton)
Mystery/Thriller
Alex Segura, Secret Identity (Flatiron)
Poetry
Dionne Brand, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems (Duke University Press)
Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
Nicola Griffith, Spear (Tordotcom)
Science & Technology
Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Little, Brown)
Young Adult Literature
Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Torch (Lerner)
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