Los Angeles Times Book Prize Dave Eggers , double lauréat du prix en 2009Le Los Angeles Times Book Prize est une série de prix littéraires attribués annuellement à certains livres par le Los Angeles Times « sont répartis en neuf catégories de titre unique : biographie, actualité, fiction, première fiction (le Art Seidenbaum Award ajouté en 1991), Histoire, roman policer/thriller (catégorie ajoutée en 2000), poésie, science et technologie (catégorie ajoutée en 1989), et fiction pour la jeunesse (catégorie ajoutée en 1998). En outre, le Robert Kirsch Award est décerné chaque année à un auteur vivant ayant un lien important avec l'Ouest américain , dont la contribution aux lettres américaines mérite une reconnaissance particulière » [ 1]
Ce programme de prix littéraires a été fondé par Art Seidenbaum, un éditeur du Times Book de 1978 à 1985. Le prix portant son nom a été ajouté un an après sa mort, en 1990. Les travaux sont admissibles au cours de l'année de leur première publication en anglais aux États-Unis, bien que l'anglais n'ait pas nécessairement à être la langue d'origine de l'œuvre. L'auteur de chaque livre récompensé reçoit une citation et 1 000 dollars.
Biographie
2021 : Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane de Paul Auster
2020 : Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck de William Souder
2019 : Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century de George Packer
2018 : Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom de David W. Blight
2017 : Henry David Thoreau : A life de Laura Walls
2016 : Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 de Volker Ullrich (Knopf)
2015 : Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi de Hayden Herrera (Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
2014 : Napoleon: A Life de Andrew Roberts (Viking)
2013 : Bolivar: American Liberator de Marie Arana (Simon & Schuster)
2012 : The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson de Robert Caro (Knopf)
2011 : Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned de John A. Farrell (Doubleday )
2010 : Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand (Random House )
2009 : Dorothea Lange : A Life Beyond LimitsLinda Gordon (W. W. Norton & Company )
2008 : Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching de Paula J. Giddings (Amistad/HarperCollins )
2007 : Young Stalin de Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf)
2006 : Walt Disney : The Triumph of the American ImaginationNeal Gabler (Alfred A. Knopf )
2005 : Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse , the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 de Hilary Spurling , (Knopf)
2004 : de Kooning : An American Master
2003 : American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization de Neil Smith (University of California Press )
2002 : Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson , Vol. 3 de Robert Caro (Knopf)
2001 : Theodore Rex Edmund Morris (Random House)
2000 : Jefferson Davis , American
1999 : Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette de Judith Thurman (Knopf)
1998 : Lindbergh A. Scott Berg (Putnam's )
1997 : Whittaker Chambers : A BiographySam Tanenhaus (Random House)
1996 : Les Cendres d'Angela Frank McCourt (Scribner )
1995 : Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 de Doris Lessing (HarperCollins)
1994 : Shot in the Heart de Mikal Gilmore (Doubleday)
1993 ; Daniel Boone : The Life and Legend of an American PioneerJohn Mack Faragher (Henry Holt & Company )
1992 : Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume One 1884-1993Blanche Wiesen Cook (Viking Books )
1991 : Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes , 1874-1952 de T.H. Watkins (Henry Holt)
1990 : A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt de Geoffrey C. Ward (Harper & Row )
1989 : This Boy's Life: A Memoir de Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press )
1988 : Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom de Brenda Maddox (Houghton Mifflin )
1987 : Hemingway Kenneth S. Lynn (Simon & Schuster )
1986 : Alexander Pope : A Life
1985 : Solzhenitsyn Michael Scammell (W.W. Norton)
1984 : The Nightmare of Reason de Ernst Pawel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
1983 : The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House de Seymour Hersh (Summit Books )
1982 : Waldo Emerson : A Biography
1981 : Mornings on Horseback David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
1980 : (Le prix de la biographie inclus dans le prix d'histoire jusqu'en 1980)
2021 : Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could de Adam Schiff
2020 : Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents de Isabel Wilkerson
2019 : Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration de Emily Bazelon 2018 : The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border de Francisco Cantu
2017 : Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America de Nancy MacLean
2016 : Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets de Svetlana Alexievich traduit par Bela Shayevich (Random House)
2015 : Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security de Sarah Chayes (W.W. Norton and Company)
2014 : The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy LeagueJeff Hobbs (Scribner)
2013 : Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital de Sheri Fink (Crown)
2012 : Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity de Katherine Boo (Random House)
2011 : Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2010 : The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Company)
2009 : Zeitoun Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s Books)
2008 : Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency de Barton Gellman (The Penguin Press)
2007 : Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point d'Elizabeth D. Samet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2006 : Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance de Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
2005 : Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War , de Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt)
2004 : Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War Evan Wright (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
2003 : The New Chinese Empire -- And What It Means for the United StatesRoss Terrill (Basic Books)
2002 : Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex de Judith Levine (University of Minnesota Press)
2001 : Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting de in America de Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company)
2000 : Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan , Star Wars and the End of the Cold War de Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
1999 : Sidewalk (avec des photographies d'Ovie Carter) de Mitchell Duneier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1998 : We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda de Philip Gourevitch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1997 : The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures de Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1996 : Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War de Peter Maass (Alfred A. Knopf)
1995 : Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black de Gregory Howard Williams (Dutton)
1994 : Diplomacy de Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)
1993 : Mexican Americans : The Ambivalent Minority
1992 : La Fin de l'histoire et le Dernier Homme Francis Fukuyama (The Free Press)
1991 : Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process de E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Simon & Schuster)
1990 : Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century d'O.B. Hardison, Jr. (Viking)
1989 : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 de Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
1988 : Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country de William Greider (Simon & Schuster)
1987 : The Blind Watchmaker de Richard Dawkins (W.W. Norton)
1986 : Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books)
1985 : Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life de Robert N. Bellah , Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler et Steven M. Tipton (University of California Press)
1984 : Cities and the Wealth of Nations de Jane Jacobs (Random House)
1983 : Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1982 : The Fate of the Earth de Jonathan Schell (Alfred A. Knopf)
1981 : Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number de Jacobo Timerman (Alfred A. Knopf)
1980 : Without Fear or Favor de Harrison Salisbury (New York Times Books) [Winner of the General Award—no Current Interest Award this year]
Fiction
Histoire
2020 : Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All de Martha S. Jones
2019 : They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South de Stephanie Jones-Rogers
2018 : Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945 de Julia Boyd
2017 : The Death and Life of the Great Lakes de Dan Egan
2016 : An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 de Benjamin Madley (Yale University Press )
2015 : Killing a King: The Assassination of a Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel de Dan Ephron (W.W. Norton and Company)
2014 : The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 de Adam Tooze (Viking)
2013 : The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 de Christopher Clark (HarperCollins)
2012 : America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union de Fergus M. Bordewich (Simon & Schuster)
2011 : Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America de Richard White (W.W. Norton & Company)
2010 : The Killing of Crazy Horse de Thomas Powers (Knopf)
2009 : Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963 de Kevin Starr (Oxford University Press)
2008 : Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe de Mark Mazower (The Penguin Press)
2007 : Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA de Tim Weiner (Doubleday)
2006 : The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
2005 : Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves de Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin)
2004 : Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Guerre contre le terrorisme de Geoffrey R. Stone (W.W. Norton & Company)
2003 : An Imperfect God: George Washington , His Slaves, and the Creation of America de Henry Wiencek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2002 : Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Michael Oren (Oxford University Press)
2001 : Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus de Rick Perlstein (Hill and Wang Division, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2000 : The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach de Alice Kaplan (University of Chicago Press )
1999 : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II John W. Dower (W.W. Norton)
1998 : The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity de Roy Porter (W.W. Norton)
1997 : A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution Orlando Figes (Viking)
1996 : Black Sea de Neal Ascherson (Hill & Wang)
1995 : Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America de Jackson Lears (Basic Books)
1994 : Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 de George Chauncey (Basic Books)
1993 : New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery de Anthony Grafton (Harvard University Press)
1992 : Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism de Alexander Stille (Summit)
1991 : The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America de Nicholas Lemann (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 : The Quest for El Cid de Richard Fletcher (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 : An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood Neal Gabler (Crown Books)
1988 : Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 de Eric Foner (Harper & Row)
1987 : [Prix non attribué]
1986 : The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within de Geoffrey Hosking (Harvard University Press)
1985 : Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn de Evan S. Connell (North Point Press)
1984 : The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert Darnton (Basic Books)
1983 : The Wheels of Commerce de Fernand Braudel (Harper & Row)
1982 : The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 de Jonathan D. Spence (Viking)
1981 : Land of Savagery/Land of Promise de Ray Allen Billington (W.W. Norton)
1980 : Walter Lippmann and the American CenturyRonald Steel (Atlantic/ Little Brown)
Science et technologie
2021 : The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred de Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
2020 : The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir de Sara Seager
2019 : Figuring de Maria Popova
2018 : Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America de Beth Macy
2017 : Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst de Robert Sapolsky
2016 : Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets de Luke Dittrich (Random House)
2015 : The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World de Andrea Wulf (Alfred A. Knopf)
2014 : The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt & Co)
2013 : Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? de Alan Weisman (Little, Brown & Company)
2012 : Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History de Florence Williams (W.W. Norton & Company)
2011 : Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius de Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster )
2010 : The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness de Oren Harman (W. W. Norton & Company )
2009 : The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom Graham Farmelo (Basic Books /Perseus Book Group )
2008 : The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics de Leonard Susskind (Little, Brown and Company )
2007 : I Am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter (Basic Books)
2006 : In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind de Eric R. Kandel (W.W. Norton)
2005 : Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima de Diana Preston (Walker & Company )
2004 : The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change de Charles Wohlforth (North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
2003 : Protecting America’s Health: The FDA , Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation de Philip J. Hilts (Alfred A. Knopf )
2002 : Rosalind Franklin : The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox (HarperCollins Publishers)
2001 : The Invention of Clouds : How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesRichard Hamblyn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2000 : The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine de James Le Fanu , M.D. (Carroll & Graf )
1999 : Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Dava Sobel (Walker and Company)
1998 : Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce de Douglas Starr (Alfred A. Knopf)
1997 : How the Mind Works Steven Pinker (W.W. Norton)
1996 : The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan (Random House)
1995 : Naturalist Edward O. Wilson (Island Press )
1994 : The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time de Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)
1993 : Logique floue : The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World
1992 : Le Troisième chimpanzé, essai sur l'évolution et l'avenir de l'animal humain Jared Diamond (HarperCollins)
1991 : The Truth About Chernobyl
1990 : Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine de Jane S. Smith (William Morrow )
1989 : Peacemaking among Primates de Frans de Waal (Harvard University Press )
1988 : [prix ajouté en 1989]
2021 : frank: sonnets de Diane Seuss
2020 : Obit de Victoria Chang
2019 : Deaf Republic: Poems de Ilya Kaminsky
2018 : Wild is the Wind: Poems de Carl Phillips
2017 : Incendiary Art: Poems de Patricia Smith
2016 : Gap Gardening: Selected Poems de Rosmarie Waldrop (New Directions)
2015 : From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 de Jorie Graham (Ecco/HarperCollins )
2014 : Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
2013 : Collected Poems de Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press)
2012 : Poems 1962-2012 de Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2011 : Double Shadow: Poems de Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2010 : Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 de Maxine Kumin (W. W. Norton & Company)
2009 : Practical Water de Brenda Hillman (Wesleyan University Press)
2008 : Watching the Spring Festival: Poems de Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2007 : Old Heart: Poems de Stanley Plumly (W. W. Norton)
2006 : Ooga-Booga de Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2005 : Refusing Heaven: Poems de Jack Gilbert (Alfred A. Knopf)
2004 : Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 by Richard Howard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2003 : Collected Later Poems de Anthony Hecht (Alfred A. Knopf)
2002 : The Watercourse: Poems de Cynthia Zarin (Alfred A. Knopf)
2001 : The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos de Anne Carson (Alfred A. Knopf)
2000 : The Throne of Labdacus de Gjertrud Schnackenberg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1999 : Repair: Poems de C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1998 : Mysteries of Small Houses de Alice Notley (Penguin Books)
1997 : Black Zodiac de Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1996 : Mixed Company de Alan Shapiro (The University of Chicago Press)
1995 : The Inferno of Dante de Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1994 : The Angel of History de Carolyn Forché (HarperCollins)
1993 : My Alexandria de Mark Doty (University of Illinois Press)
1992 : An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 de Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
1991 : What Work Is de Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 : The Color of Mesabi Bones de John Caddy (Milkweed)
1989 : The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts de Donald Hall (Ticknor & Fields/ Houghton Mifflin)
1988 : New and Collected Poems de Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1987 : Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems de William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)
1986 : Collected Poems, 1948-1984 de Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1985 : Cross Ties de X.J. Kennedy (University of Georgia Press)
1984 : The Maximus Poems de Charles Olson (University of California Press)
1983 : The Changing Light at Sandover James Merrill (Atheneum)
1982 : Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 de Allen Ginsberg (City Lights)
1981 : Three Pieces de Ntozake Shange (St. Martin's Press)
1980 : Kill the Messenger de Robert Kelly (Black Sparrow)
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Prix Robert Kirsch
The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
2021 : Real Estate: A Living Autobiography de Deborah Levy
2020 : Mayflies de Andrew O'Hagan
2019 : Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine de Emily Bernard
2018 : Heavy: An American Memoir de Kiese Laymon
2017 : The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered de Benjamin Taylor
2016 : "They Can't Kill Us All": Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
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