L.A. Times Book Prize nominees announced
NEW YORK -- Nominees for the 28th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Thursday, along with the winner of this year's Robert Kirsch Award.
Finalists in nine categories were unveiled at the National Arts Club in Manhattan by Kenneth Turan, a Times film critic and director of the Times Book Prizes, and David L. Ulin, Times book editor. The winners will be announced April 25 at UCLA's Royce Hall as part of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Novelist Maxine Hong Kingston won this year's Kirsch award, which honors a living author with a connection to the American West whose works have made a substantial contribution to American letters. Kingston, who lives in Oakland, has written many highly acclaimed books, such as "The Woman Warrior," "China Men" and "Tripmaster Monkey." The award is given in memory of the late Los Angeles Times book critic and editor.
Times Book Prizes: An article in Friday's Calendar section about nominees for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes listed the title of the book by nominee Andrew Nagorski as "Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II." The correct title is "The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II."
Biography
Nancy Isenberg
"Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr" (Viking)
Tim Jeal
"Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer" (Yale University Press)
Simon Sebag Montefiore
"Young Stalin" (Alfred A. Knopf)
Robert Morgan
"Boone: A Biography" (A Shannon Ravenel Book/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Michael J. Neufeld
"Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" (Alfred A. Knopf)
Current interest
Ishmael Beah
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Tom Bissell
"The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam" (Pantheon)
Ronald Brownstein
"The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America" (Penguin Press)
Naomi Klein
"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
Elizabeth D. Samet
"Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Fiction
Junot Díaz"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (Riverhead Books)
Andrew O'Hagan
"Be Near Me" (Harcourt)
Stewart O'Nan
"Last Night at the Lobster" (Viking)
Per Petterson
