Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
Edition 25 (2004)
Winners
11 peopleThe 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction went to Lorraine Adams's Harbor, a novel that follows an arrival at Boston Harbor and traces themes of migration, isolation, and fragile belonging.
Set around an arrival in Boston Harbor, the novel follows uncertain lives and the possibility of starting over.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography recognized Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan's de Kooning: An American Master, a biography of Willem de Kooning and his artistic career.
A detailed portrait of Willem de Kooning and the making of an American master.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography recognized Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan's de Kooning: An American Master, a biography of Willem de Kooning and his artistic career.
A detailed portrait of Willem de Kooning and the making of an American master.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest went to Evan Wright's Generation Kill, a frontline account of the Iraq War.
A frontline account of the Iraq War written from embedded reporting.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction honored Colm Toibin's The Master, a novel centered on Henry James.
A novel that turns Henry James's private life into fiction.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History went to Geoffrey R. Stone's Perilous Times, a history of free speech in wartime.
A historical study of free speech under wartime pressure.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller went to Kem Nunn's Tijuana Straits, a borderlands novel set along the California-Mexico coast.
A borderland thriller shaped by danger, surf, and the possibility of redemption.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry went to Richard Howard's Inner Voices, a selected volume of poems spanning 1963 to 2003.
A selected volume gathering nearly four decades of poetry.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology went to Charles Wohlforth's The Whale and the Supercomputer, a nonfiction book about climate change in the Arctic.
A science narrative about climate change at the Arctic frontier.
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction went to Melvin Burgess's Doing It, a frank novel about teenage sexuality and relationships.
A candid young adult novel about teenage desire and emotional risk.